All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

I wanted to join Footlights, ” he says. “I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact I wanted to be John Cleese and it took me some time to realise that the job was in fact taken.

But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn’t help feeling, was a very worrying thing for the world to do.

The only way you would have failed, " she said, "is if you had.

As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

I knew I’d be troubled, but who knew awhile meant forever?

✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.

Be the same person- with or without money.

Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain Let the brokenhearted love again Sherry, we can run with our arms open before the tide.

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.