“Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.”

“Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.”

“The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.”

“A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.”

“The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.”

“Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“Universe is nothing, but human thought.”

“Nothing is the whole story. The selfs curse and the writers.”

“There's a fine line, you know. Between having space and having nothing.”

“He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.”

“Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.”

“Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.”