There are certain things in life that you'll be forgiven for, no matter how thoughtless or stupid or reckless, but if you do that same thing twice, you're on your own.

Somehow he'd become the one constant in this whole uneven chapter in her life, & the idea that could change was unsettling.

But a small part of him also knew that the reason he'd never ventured anywhere was because of the worry that the reality of the world wouldn't match up to his dreams.

And I'm okay with drowning.

Pain is just the price we pay to feel

On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance.

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.

Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.

It's awkward doing it with anybody, but it's like Twister.

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.