The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.