Get transported back to the seventies !
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism. . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron. . . . I should have been able to do better.
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.