Worthless is life just dreaming but not working, ” -Taleeb

I was drunk but not drunk enough to say what I wanted, that we don't live our lives so much as come to them, as different people and things collect mysteriously around us.

Being honest about where you come from and what your story is is the only way to connect to other people, to really connect with them.

Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.

In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

To see, one must go beyond the imiagination and for that one must stand absolutely still as though at the center of a leap.

Everything we think and feel (and keep thinking and feeling) creates, deep within, the brain we have.

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.

So much of who we are is where we have been.