We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

Addiction makes love impossible.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.

Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."