When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

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.

Beauty is boring because it is predictable.