It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

Love is a strange feeling indeed, a feeling that every person must experience at least once in his or her life. A feeling that makes us feel one with God!

I don't think your missing pieces ever go inside you again once they go missing.

It's simplicity itself that its future will be way worse than its past.

Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.

I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.

There are makeup artists sometimes that have a jade face roller. If you're really tired those are really good.

The main thing to know about me is that I'm a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with them, and that's clear from my writing.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time.” - Seneca “Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.