...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins.

So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.

But it seems she’d wanted children after all, because when she was told she’d been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her.

You couldn’t leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.

Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?

If someone wants to suck your toes, those toes should be worth sucking.

I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.

I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you're having them.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

I guess sometimes you just have to fight your battles.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.

The great artist is the simplifier.