And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?

You have not escaped his notice either- you are here by 'a call' not by choice.

The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.

I can't stand Bob Dylan.

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

I didn't want to be alone, but I had to learn that the dimensions of my feelings are too violent. I had to learn this.

A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else.

When do we ask the Sierra Club to pick up the tab for this leak?

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.