Politics and literature are both attempts to change reality, just in different ways.

Every failure in the lab teaches you something valuable—if you're paying attention.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

I don’t believe in luck. I believe in hard work.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.