The world is not magic — and that’s the most magical thing about it.

Historically, nature has been very good at surprising us.

If an ontology predicts almost nothing it ends up explaining almost nothing, and there's no reason to believe it.

Age is neither a limit nor an exception to realize your true potential or the way you want to live your life

Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.

My eyes have always been advertisements for an early death.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

Adults don't get nearly the attention and support the kids do, maybe because they're not as cute or because people forget that autism is lifelong. But it is.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be: 'Mispricing'. We look for mispricing due to over-reaction.

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.