Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

I love art, I collect mostly modern art.

Nothing in life was as ugly as death.

This, I suppose, is part of being human, learning from our losses how better to appreciate what is left in their wake.

People in love overvalue their heart and undervalue their mind.

Pages burnt, memories buried, I wakeor think I'm awake. Or dreaming still?

People sell their soul in such small quantities - a seemingly trivial compromise here, a rationalization of a minor evil there - that they don't realize what they're doing until it is too late.

Curiosity is the fire of desires that burns the dust to reveal the diamond.

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.

Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.

The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.