I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.
Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
I have to keep Dune perfume in my dressing room, because I always wear it, but I must never put it on in case it makes me choke.
To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
Someone creates a trick, many people perfect it, but its final success in front of an audience depends on the person who presents it.