"I was not born to amuse the Tsars."

-- Alexander Pushkin

“As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the Gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life.”
“What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he would have emerged, bewildered and blinking, on the far side of the earth. Was he awed by her? Absolutely. Did he respect her? Unequivocally. Want to be anything like her? No, never, not at all.”
“O freedom, first delight of human kind!”
“A rugby tour is like sex. When its good it's great, and when it's bad - hey! It's still pretty good!”
“Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.”
“The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.”

Source : 1960 'Relic'.
“I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready”
“Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.”

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