“Remember this… develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.”

“Though, if you think about it, hostile, dethroned pseudodeities probably make disagreeable neighbors. You'll have to figure out something to do with him.”

“Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.”

“It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road, you never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.”

“So we've got to figure out what the ecosystem is going to be, to develop vaccines that are not going to make money.”

“No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.”

“Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.”

“Here's something you'll never see in Braille: "If you see something, say something."”

“[Institutional entrepreneurs must] size up the condition of the organizational field and figure out what kinds of action make sense.”

“I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.”