If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

There’s more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior — the best warrior — isn’t cruel or mean. He doesn’t claw an enemy who can’t fight back. Where’s the honor in that?

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody.

The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.

It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.

I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until it's perfect.