Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.

If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.

Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.

Sometimes words aren't needed.

Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

Beauty draws more than oxen.

An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.

A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually.

The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.