“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something”
“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something”
“I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals”
“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much”
“In heaven all the interesting people are missing”
“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors”
“An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex”
“Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself.”