"The Golden Apples of the Sun" Quotes

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

We're all fools... all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

The air was full of storm and flying things.

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man and hence your perspective changes.

They said you’d come and tell me all this one day. I’ve been waiting a long time. You’re here now. You’ve got to explain it to me. I’ve been waiting.

To everything in the world there is a limit.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.