Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.

The best revenge is living well without you.

A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where you haven't been before, or go for a walk, a run, and look for signs of grace-an epiphany, something that comes to you.

Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?