There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.

Continue to reinvent. Keep things moving and changing and growing and always a little bit out of reach.

Get comfortable with the idea that you won’t know what’s good until it’s already happened.

I have a weird sense that people ten years younger than me don't own a radio, or maybe they own a radio, but they don't call it a radio.

Therein lies the rub of a place like Berkeley Bowl. You get seduced by an 11-pound apple that turns out to be a fake watermelon with an anus.

A hero stands up to the villain in themselves.

The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.

It was wrong. It was like arresting the gun for murder.

Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.

Rebus was eating breakfast in the canteen and wishing there was more caffeine in the coffee, or more coffee in the coffee come to that.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.