The quality of Moscow's hired killers had slipped since the KGB's glory days.

I don't like when people pay for me.

Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

With imagination, we can hold a universe inside our minds.

What's Princeton doing today?

Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it.

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.

You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern.

By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.