I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

Markets come and go. Good business don't.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.

Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

Food is neither your enemy nor your best friend. It won't mend your broken heart and it won't send you to hell.

Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.

I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.

She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.