“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”

“[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).”

“Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.”

“I have become a gateTo the ruined city, dry, / Indestructible by fire.”

“I have a plot, but not much happens.”

“I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.”

“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow`s speed.”