We're doing our homework to make sure we're prepared.

The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.

Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don’t believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it’s probably just like a habit.

I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

Writing about something specific, in my mind, was overwhelming, so I wrote about art because I love art and I know I can say a couple of funny things about art.

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.