Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.

I think it's ok to have wishes that conflict with each other - it's irrational to try to make them both come true, but not irrational simply to have them.

I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.

It is humor's job to laugh at the futility oft engendered by the improbable

This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself and then, when you really need it, it's not there.

[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.

The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.

Dance like nobody's looking.

For me marketing is about how to present a project.

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.