A beginning is the end of something, always..

This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive. This is what it is to….

Sexual intercourse vests no property rights..

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened..

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid..

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise..

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence..

Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky..

honesty is hard work..

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy..

Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those….

...I know good design when I fail to trip over it..

Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created o….

It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have o….

Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I kn….

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour..

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile..

You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a god….

In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watc….

When writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence...in love, never settle...value yourself first and this will help you to value others..….