If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.

It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts.

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do, in retrospect.

If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.