There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.

Simply put: Epistemic games recreate in game form the things that people do in the real world to learn to think in innovative and creative ways about problems that matter.

The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties

Our challenge is more of ignorance than stupidity. Having informed decisions most of us will make reasonable decisions.

Snobbery - the "pox Britannica"

Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

The best revenge is to live well.

...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).