When you don’t know how much to pay someone for a particular task， ask them “what would be fair” and their answer usually is.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

The greatest scientists are the ones who never stop learning.

The consequences of this problem make themselves felt in bookshops. When you go to a large bookshop and look at the self-help sections, as I sometimes do -- if you analyze self-help book sproduced in the world today, there are basically two kinds. The first kind tells you, "You can do it! You can make it! Anything's possible!" The other kind tells you how to cope with what we politely call "low self-esteem," or impolitely call, "feeling very bad about yourself."

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him.