Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality?

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere — anywhere.

We're not friends, Mark, " I reply sadly. "We're strangers with memories.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.

How different men were to women!

If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.

A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.