Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.