Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks

That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.

If the demons lived anywhere it was here.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.

The curse of the sun and the moon is fake. It doesn't exist.

It's nice to work with people who know and trust you.

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

No religion but blasphemes a little.