[S]elfish members win within groups, but groups of altruists best groups of selfish members. (63)

Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.

You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it

There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

I'm a coyote shapeshifter playing in a world of werewolves and vampires---outmatched is n understatement.

Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.