"There's a simplicity in typography that demands absolute accuracy... the only way you can experience it is by doing it, and you can't do it on a screen because a screen never gives you the entire picture."

“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”

Source : Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.40, Macmillan

“The internet must be used to maximise open communication and we should encourage the expansion of its use.”

Source : Source: memeburn.com

“A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth, make you feel the underlying emotion, make you sense the larger world. That, too, is the power of science: to sense and convey the depth and dimensionality of nature, to glance at the surface and to divine the shape of the universe around us.”

“As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.”

“I support the rights of all people to practice their religious beliefs privately, but I oppose the idea of respecting religions. In truth, I have no respect for any religion. I believe religion is not compatible with human rights, women's rights, or freedom of expression.”

“I promise if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it.”

“Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able to prevent the advent of negative conduct dominated by negative emotion. That is 'shila', or moral ethics. Once we develop this by familiarizing ourselves with it, along with mindfulness and conscientiousness, eventually that pattern and way of life will become a part of our own life.”

“Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.”

Source : "Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology". Book by Edwin Boring. Preface. p. XI, 1942.