...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

My love is toxic and you're suicidal.

Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color.

I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people