Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.

GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.

If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle—that is, being human.

They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now?

Sketch what you got, it will determine what you will be.

Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.

What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.

I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.

Maybe, I want her to do anything she wants, but I hope her interest in singing stays high.

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes