"Ein Buch ist wie ein Garten, den man in der Tasche trägt."

Risk management isn't about avoiding challenges—it's about preparing for them.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.