I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go.

Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed.

I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?

If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

Some things exist whether you believe in them or not

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"

The goal is partly the enjoyment; it doesn't come later, but within the very process of the struggle.

The I Cing is a study in duality and what lies beyond duality.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way they are a microcosm of the Internet.

There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.

Me? I didn’t believe in hopeless.

The things that have taken place over my career have been unbelievable. I have a lot of great moments to cherish.

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job