Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

And I figured that he can be my ears and I can be his eyes. A good trade-off, don't you think?

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.

I believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people.

We started Yahoo in about April 1994. It started out as a way for us to keep track of things that we were interested in.

These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge to work together and recognise that they are on the right track.

Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.

Hate is a strong word. I don't really try to hate anything. Yeah, you could say I have a complicated, domestic relationship with America for sure.

I disagree with a lot of things, but hey, what a person does is between them and their maker. I can disagree with somebody, and I can still be friends with them.

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.