You're never going to learn everything.
Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.
I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.
There comes a time in every life when the past recedes and the future opens. It's that moment when you turn to face the unknown. Some will turn back to what they already know. Some will walk straight ahead into uncertainty. I can't tell you which one is right. But I can tell you which one is more fun.
Play by the rules, but be ferocious.
Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.
It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David.
You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But try as I might, nothing less facile came to mind.