A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form.

Human knowledge is never contained in just one person.

What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.

Even if you are perfect the World isn't.

Literature not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job- not a calling.

People often ask if it was calling. My answer always is yes.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job-- not a calling.

[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture—and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death.

Do not allow your life to keep pouring out and reducing without converting it to tangible products.

Writing might never be an easy act, but with TBL, writers don’t have to go at it alone.

Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.

The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'

It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow.

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.