It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true--nobody will ever take you seriously.

So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

Your conversations are the beginning of your connections

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

To live is to express oneself freely

I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.

It's hard to be objective about your own work.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.

Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?