You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!

True coolness is the incidental by-product of higher pursuits.

Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.

Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

Talking's just a nervous habit.

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.