I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination...
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not...
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not...
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is...
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why...