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- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
- Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
- John Lithgow
- The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg (1933 - )
- The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
- Christopher Hampton
- I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), "Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962)
- The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
- Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
- I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
- We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
- Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
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