“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”

“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.”

“You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.”

“Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once its exciting, and if you do it every day its exciting. But if you do it, say, twice o...”

“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”

“Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make the...”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”

“why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out”

“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are”

“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”

“There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in ord...”

“Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.”