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The sky was a midnight blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water lily, floating forward with an invisible current  (Was Quotes) Envy is the only name she could find for the monstrous thing she faced, but it was much worse than envy: it was the profound hatred of life, of success and of all human values  (Was Quotes) Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. anguished, she thought, I don't want to be just another blade of grass  (Was Quotes) She was beautiful, with a beauty so severe and so solitary that at first it was startling. Ah! if only there were two of me, she thought, one doing the talking and one listening, one living and one watching, how I would love myself. I'd envy no one  (Was Quotes) Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity  (Was Quotes) If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled  (Was Quotes) It was imperative to make common cause with the oppressed, in order to secure a new system opposed to the ambitions and governing habits of the oppressors  (Was Quotes) When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong  (Was Quotes) And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range  (Was Quotes) One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to  (Was Quotes) It was a fine cry, loud and long, but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow  (Was Quotes) Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style  (Was Quotes) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage  (Was Quotes) My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition  (Was Quotes) I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it  (Was Quotes) Father raised his glass one last time and we repeated after him: Next year in Jerusalem. None of us could know that this was our last Passover meal as a family  (Was Quotes) Buddy Holly was twenty-two. Think of what he might have gone on to achieve. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course  (Was Quotes) I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science  (Was Quotes) It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining  (Was Quotes) Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science  (Was Quotes) All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion. Over a large number of bets, the odds even out and we can make predictions; that's why casino owners are so rich. But over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important  (Was Quotes) In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks  (Was Quotes) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral  (Was Quotes) A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life  (Was Quotes) I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark  (Was Quotes) She was unstoppable. Not because she did not have failures or doubts. But because she continued on despite them  (Was Quotes) Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?  (Was Quotes) If you're the village blacksmith and a Model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste  (Was Quotes) The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them  (Was Quotes) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do  (Was Quotes)
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