Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

nothing can wear you out like caring about people

To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.

I think we should think of AI as the intellectual equivalent of a backhoe. It will be much better than us at a lot of things.

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

I prayed for someone to love me as much as I love you. Eventually I came to see that that "someone" was me.

Desire abides. It is all people have that stands proof against time. Everything else rots.

Whatever fate ordains, danger or hurt, or death predetermined, nothing can avert.

Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.

Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?

I'm living my dream, everything fell into the right place for me.

In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.

what made you happy once might not make you happy now.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.