A writer must not allow himself to be turned into an institution.

Hell is other people.

Man is condemned to be free.

We are our choices.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

-- Steve Jobs

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

-- Bertrand Russell

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few.

-- Gustav Klimt

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.

-- Albert Camus

To create original products, you need an environment where original people can operate freely.

-- Masaru Ibuka

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza