There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

The truth is an anagram of an anagram.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.