Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.