“Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.”

“So remember, if you're feeling bitter — or sorry for yourself about what you've done, and how much good you've accomplished — or if you find yourself more than anyone else talking about the good you've done, you're doing it for the wrong reasons, because it should be the default.”

“It seems that when an impending catastrophe will affect them personally, in their very flesh and blood, intellectuals start to think more clearly about the legal and institutional prerequisites of a free society.”

“Start calling yourself healed, happy, whole, blessed, and prosperous. Stop talking to God about how big
your mountains are, and start talking to your mountains about how big your God is!”

“If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.”

“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”

“I feel comfortably qualified to talk about anything, but that's a personal problem and I'm dealing with it.”

“The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.”

“It isn't about "games", for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something- anything- far bigger than yourself.”

“The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.”