There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel

I’m tickling a traced pattern over her bare hip. She’s pretending to sleep. Her smile is an idiot. A bad secret keeper.

Widespread justification formulate the most significant obstacles on the way to achieving a dream

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead.

The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.

Incompetency fed on itself.

The iPod is a perfect example of Steve's [Jobs] methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.