"All habits gather by unseen degrees."

-- John Dryden

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“It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading theorists are striving, with the help of experimentalists, to devise a single mathematical theory that embraces all the basic phenomena of matter and energy. The other two are in biology. Biologists-and the rest of us too-would like to know how the brain works and how a single cell, the fertilized egg cell, develops into an entire organism”
“This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.”
“When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.”
“You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.”
“Every ethnic group thinks they are the chosen ones. â€¦”
“They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine.”
“Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.”
“Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.”

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