“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.”

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.”