Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking including thinking about not thinking.

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull it may be naive it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese milks leap toward immortality.

When you re read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Cheese is milks leap toward immortality.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man but I knew how to try to become one.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.

Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

We were worried about that actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't.

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.