As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldnt necessarily be good.

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

Running for president is the new selfie.

It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-informed. You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

We choose mania over boredom every time.

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.