Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.

We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.

If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.

You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.