Sometimes the heart demands.

Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility.

And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.

We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs.

Control is an advertising concept.

If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.

Intimacy, finally, had got the better of us.

We calculated the baseline requirement of diversity.

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.

I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.

It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

Content will become more important than navigation. Content is the 'there' of navigation. It is the reason people go on the Net.

Believing in something and being a part of something you believe in and watching it work and coming from it.

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no.

I do care about the direction of America.

I've had ups and downs but always maintained I was a working actor, which is a beautiful thing.

Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.