I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.