It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.

If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.

Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting #‎ intuition guide my way.

Saving money won't get us rich. You have to spend it to get it.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, "Senator, we ought to change the policy," then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.

New Yorkers always hate LA! I love both cities! I do love the sunshine and the beach after growing up in rainy England.

Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld?

I’d rather be at home and eat ice cream than go out and get wasted.

I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.