Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don't. I think it's 50-50 maybe. But ever since I've had cancer, I've been thinking about it more. And I find myself believing a bit more. I kind of: maybe it's'cause I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn't just all disappear. The wisdom you've accumulated. Somehow it lives on, but sometimes I think it's just like an on-off switch. Click and you're gone. And that's why I don't like putting on-off switches on Apple devices.
Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation, it is part of the equation.
When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.
That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum, but you have to make the romance, and it will come to the question how much fire you have in your belly.
To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed, it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.