I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe.

Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language.

We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.

That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.

It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.

The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.

While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.

It doesn't need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that.

There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.