"There’s been a tsunami of media, and I’ve been riding it on a mercury surfboard."

"Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely…"

"Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero."

"If I choose among you, you will feel hurt. But nature has its own way of choosing. Those who are not entitled to something, drop out by themselves."

"I have seen the astrolabe called Zuraqi invented by Abu Sa'id Sijzi. I liked it very much and praised him a great deal, as it is based on the idea entertained by some to the effect that the motion we …"