I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

Brian Cox (physicist)

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

John Ruskin

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Edith Wharton

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

Peter Thiel

This is the Hour of Lead --Remembered, if outlived,As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow --First --Chill --then Stupor --then the letting go --.

Emily Dickinson, The Complete Po

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

Henry Rollins

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

Wilt Chamberlain

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

Stephen Fry

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

Irvin S. Cobb

I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.

Guy Ritchie

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Mark Twain