Emotions and Feelings

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn a living at it. One should earn one’s living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anyone can we find joy in scientific endeavor.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers.

Life is the desert, life the solitude;

True to the kindred points of heaven and home!

Behold her, single in the field,

We poets in our youth begin in gladness;

To me the meanest flower that blows can give

And by the vision splendid

Whither is fled the visionary gleam?

A timely utterance gave that thought relief,

For oft, when on my couch I lie

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free.

The light that never was, on sea or land,

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,

I read the book of Job last night. I don’t think God comes well out of it.

Electric Kool-Aid Acid test.

Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

It is no use telling me that there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

We’re all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!