Just being with Nakajima made me feel as if we were detached from history, and had no particular age.

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.

It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.

Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.

...there's nothing wrong with being a little hopeful. Who says you can't warm your frozen limbs in the faint heat of a flicker of hope?

Nakajima’s past would always be there, so the foundation could crumble at any moment. That’s what happens, I realized, when people destroy other people.

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...

On the back benches, you can have your say but no power to do anything.

The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

Thankfully, I don't have a real mullet.

Bring it,muthafuckas.Bring it.

Our past is not our potential.

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat and I built a boat.