It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.