Haris...as a naive migrantwho just moved here, relying on you tapered worries.

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

A fecking flamethrower! Why didn't I think of that? Best I came up with was a measly hair dryer.

[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

Some things are better than other things: Google, Gmail, my vintage Montgomery Wards socket set (30+ years, still going strong), my Estwing framing hammer, and my Dremel rotary tool.