In order to qualify as a judgment, an affirmation must aim at getting it right aptly, through competence, and not just through a lucky guess.

When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.

Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of the a priori.

Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.

I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on.

There isn't a formal definition of success.

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

It is better to trust and lose occasionally than always be suspicious and lose every time.

To be successful, you need friends. To be very successful, you need enemies.

Information is Key to Opportunities, So Pick Up a Book!

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

I honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it.

I notice that I feel safer among women when I do drugs. I would never do drugs with male friends.

There is no life in war; there is life only in peace.

Oftentimes what happens actually is people say to me, 'I didn't know if it was you or not, and then I heard you laugh, and then obviously I could tell it was you.'

Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.