It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.