Memories shrink. Like a soap bar used over and over, they become deformed, weaker scented, too slight and slippery to hold.

He'd imagined peacetime would bring him a sense of belonging. During the war it kept him going, that thought of peace. He'd believed in it like a season he knew it would arrive one day

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

I am bigger than the box I'm in.

The poet is rather one who inspires than one inspired.

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

Effect should come first. Method second.

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.

Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as good as you and me. What's with that?

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

This guy [Donald Trump] is not going to get pushed around.

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.