“People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.”

“Experience has taught me that people only give values to things if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they will get it”

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”

“Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve.”

“I advise you to apply to all those whom you know will give something; next, to those whom you are uncertain whether they will give any thing or not, and show them the list of those who have given; and, lastly, do not neglect those who you are sure will give nothing, for in some of them you may be mistaken.”

“People have always wanted to in some way inhabit the stories that move them. The only real variable is whether technology gives them that opportunity.”