"Simplicity is the touchstone in finding new physical laws. … If it's elegant, then it's a rough rule of thumb: you're on the right track."

"It is a popular idea that a man is a hero just because he was killed in action. Rather, I think, a man is f…"

"He was just there, looking fantastic... the bastard."

"If integration is to be a reality, the Negro must struggle for it. And so the Negro must continue to work t…"

"Perhaps there really was a God, and He was just as cruel as the humans He made in His form."

"Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look."

"I find that if you just talk, your mouth comes up with stuff."