If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.

As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.

The thought of being alone when time goes on is a little bit scary sometimes, but not really.

That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it's not about your gender; it's about us being human, being in this together.

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.

To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.

I love vinyl, you know? To me it has depth, warmth, it's the best way to really sample.

I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.

Art needs an operation