Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

Wagner had a terrific understanding of politics. In 1829, he was a Marxist revolutionary who wanted to bring down the establishment. He hated religion and churches, which he said enslaved people. But he later developed different views that put art at the centre of the life of the state.

I grew up thinking Margaret Cho and Lucy Liu were my idols because that's it.

In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding of the underlying theoretical structure, and I decided to learn physics.