Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate