Just finished [Capitalist in North Korea]—fascinating! What an experience. Wow.

Without constructive skepticism, without human progress.

Freedom is your birthright!

we’re too old to be young.

Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.

They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

Lots of people support me and I forget. But sometimes things happen and I remember, and they say I encourage them, it makes me feel very happy.