“A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.”

“Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.”

“Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.”

“If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?”

“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.”

“No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.”

“When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.”

“How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited her, silenced her, and even decades after it was supposed to have ended, still acte...”

“Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home”

“The symbolism seemed so apt. The same technology that can propel apocalyptic weapons from continent to continent would enable the first human voyage to another planet. It was a choice of fitting my...”

“Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the pe...”

“Exploration of her body will open the doors to pleasuring her in ways she has yet to experience.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”