Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.
O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.
I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.
Every piece of writing I've done has been something where I feel like I need to get this out of me, whether it's a seed of something personal or an anxiety that turns into a play or an image that's in my mind and haunts me that I'm trying to investigate.
Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.