Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

In its failure to value differences in the way people learn, the educational process often suppresses intuition, creativity, and your sense of identity.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in.

I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . . it's kind of daunting sometimes.

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

I don't like to feel intimidated by where I make a living.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so curious about me that they would want to read that I wear underwear shorts with green polka dots on them.

I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno.

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.