The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.

We like lists because we don't want to die.

But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it?

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.