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“Those who take knowledge to be a whole zoo of sub-disciplines will react to my giving metaphysics a privileged position in that zoo or to my thinking of knowledge as a tree, with more and less fundamental parts.”
Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.”
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“Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.”
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“There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.”
Source : John C. Lilly, Antonietta Lilly (1976). “The Dyadic Cyclone: The Autobiography of a Couple”
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“But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.”
Source : George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.27, tredition
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“It often happens that the mind of a person who is learning a new science has to pass through all the phases which the science itself has exhibited in its historical evolution.”
Source : "Balanchine Said" by Arlene Croce, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2009. 
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“I'm a fighter for love. I guess it's just that thing of standing up for what you believe in and what and who you love. And any opportunity to avoid people fighting about things the better, really.”
Source : Source: www.stylist.co.uk
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“Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.”
