The marathon will humble you. But the truth is, sometimes it will do more than humble you. Sometimes it will break your heart.

Abolishing hierarchies thus means that people would not have set roles or tasks, but rather that these are in line with their skills and the necessary performance at a given time

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit

This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?

There is no direct evidence that [Alex] Haley sat down with the F.B.I.

People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

I'm not intellectual at all as a designer. Whatever I'm into at the moment is usually what becomes the collection.

Go on, dear brother; but an inch of time remains, and then eternal ages roll on for ever--but an inch on which we can stand and preach the way of salvation to a perishing world.

Don't surrender leadership of your life to your moods