I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods.
A translation in verse. . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.
I have a concordance to the Talmud at home, which I have to use.
They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.
There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.