Alfred North Whitehead

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were supposed to do: to go out on the road.