On Love

“When two people fall in love and suspect they are made for each other, the thing is to have the courage to break it off, for by continuing they have everything to lose and nothing to gain.”

Søren Kierkegaard

On Government

”Every nation gets the government it deserves”

Joseph de Maistre

On Work

“What science has done is to increase the proportion of your life in which you are a cog. You can only justify the cog theory by worship of the machine.”

Bertrand Russell

On Trump

“Mr. Trump’s candidacy is a message from the voters. He is the empty gin bottle they have chosen to toss through the window.”

David Gerlernter

This actually goes all the way back to February 2017.

On Sleep

”I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”

Ernest Hemingway

On Happiness

“The key to happiness is to have low expectations.”

Howard Rheingold

On Minds

“And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.”

Jack Kerouac

On Traveling

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

Ibn Baṭūṭah

On Praying

”When I pray, sometimes I fall asleep”

The Pope

On Writing

“I would go on writing even if I knew I was not going to be published, ever. I couldn’t help it.”

John LeCarre