The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.

One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself.

My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

JUST LIKE CANDY is a delicious, decadent treat.

I like people who don't tell you what you want to hear.

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

To me, the last mile of the Internet that very few people have successfully really done. And this is like micro local. Things that really impact your life. And noone's leveraging that yet.

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.