Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.

The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information.

There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.

The dog's life is a good life, for a dog.