As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.

We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word “home.”

We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own.

Robots get to see the worst of the human condition on a daily basis. Good thing they don’t have feelings.

I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience.

The transcendental light permeates your being and washes away impurity. All those different selves which are limited and binding and hurting are washed away.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world

Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.

Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues.