Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

The imagination is always the best torturer.

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

It's such a cold night and it's the only time I've actively been grateful for menopause. I've been entirely comfortable.

When'er into thine eyes I see, All pain and sorrow fly from me. [Ger., Wenn ich in deine Augen sch' So schwindet all' mein Leid und Weh.]

It's not all about content. It's all about stories. It's not all about stories. It's all about great stories.

Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie.