“ A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. ”

“ Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money. ”

“ Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection. ”

“ The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day. ”

“ How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ”

“ Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ”

“ I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. ”

“ If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ”

“ Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. ”

“ The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. ”

“ If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? ”

“ When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. ”