At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime

The little things that you saw with a child’s eye and that will never go away. That’s what consciousness is all about.

It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.

The sooner we find the answer to the question “Where am I going?” the greater result in life we can achieve

The world of books is my fantasy.

Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.

This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.

That the sun shines tomorrow is a judgement that is as true as the contrary judgement.

When we become leaders, we sometimes think we are now supposed to have the answers. Yes, we may have some answers, but we will be more effective when we engage others and get their opinions.

Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them. And I try to forgive them anyway I can.

I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.