Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.