"Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls."

“We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.”

“Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.”

“Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.”

“If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.”

“You lose a lot of time, hating people.”

“True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.”

“I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.”

“Truth is funnier than most things you can make up.”