...no matter how much success you may experience in life, your eventual story - no offence intended - will be one of failure. Your bodily organs will fail, and you'll die.

Part of the problem with positive thinking, and many related approaches to happiness, is exactly this desire to reduce big questions to one-size-fits-all self-help tricks or ten point plans.

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.

All that I can truly have: life, strength and time!

He’s a sub dog. How did she find a sub dog?

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.

The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it all, but the parts didn't seem to fit together, until now.

to everything there is an end - except fear.

Good God, what did he not remember?