The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

I know what happens a the end of falling-landing

Publishing would be so wonderful without those wretched authors.

the only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself.

A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

Embrace your dreams and never lose faith in yourself. Your dreams can come true if you work hard enough for them.

While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful.

I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.