In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.

The invisible hand never picks up the check.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.