Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.

The heart holds answers the brain refuses to see.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time.

If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.

Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's not necessarily their rap.

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.

A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this.