I want to support the view that the foundation of reality itself is a unified, indeterminate maze of possibilities.

[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

We didn't talk much, and the silence hung like a silk curtain, light and lovely.

Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.

I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.