Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.
The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.
An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation
When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.
Feminism and issues surrounding being female in the world, always, but particularly right now at this complicated cultural moment. It's a huge part of what's important to me.
Out yonder there was this huge world. . . which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.
Luxury is experiencing reality
I always knew there were vampires, dude,” he’d said. “Because, you know how there’s people you know who, like, always look the same, even when they’re, like, a hundred years old? Like David Bowie? That’s because they’re vampires.