The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

Infinite are the arguments of mages.

We spread the time as we can, but in the end the world takes it all back.

You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about 'I.'

I can live with failure, but I can't live with what-ifs.

To the edge of the Universe and back, Endure and survive.

As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we supposed. And we ourselves are, too.

There's no mystery about a human life. It's not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

My granddaddy always said: 'If you got a problem you can't solve. It helps to get out of your head.' Pie. It's good.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Let it rip.

The thing that gets you to the thing.

Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not.

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

By role modeling, you may do more for society than you do through your actual work.

As Bertrand Russell said the only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation.

If you want to go fast, go alone; but if you want to go far, go together.

What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.

You know me headmistress, I'll do both.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Why don’t you really know what you want? Two reasons that you don’t really know what you want. Number 1: you have it. Number 2: you don’t know yourself, because you never can. The godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn’t cut itself. Fire doesn’t burn itself. Light doesn’t illumine itself. It’s always an endless mystery to itself. “I don’t know."

I remember a day in class when he leaned far forward, in his characteristic pose — the pose of a man about to impart a secret — and croaked, "If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" This comical piece of advice struck me as sound at the time, and I still respect it. Why compound ignorance with inaudibility? Why run and hide?

What you love is your own power.

From horror, grief must be fashioned, and from grief, compassion. Itkovain-The Shield Anvil

The dead do not sleep, while the living do not live.

What does it all mean?

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Thank God, I’m Jung, and not a Jungian.

Information is being generated orders of magnitude faster than we can ever process in our lifetime, and that generation is accelerating.

It's not about how far you get. It's about who you bring with you.

You never have time, only intentions.

You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do. . . .

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.

The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art: the art of words.