First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

The invisible hand never picks up the check.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.