Existence without essence is very stressful.

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.

Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot—about the world we live in, and about our own past.

As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common.

To be happy drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."

It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.

I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or frustrateor of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.

How we start our day is often how we live our lives

Behind every fortune, there's a crime.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.