“If a conservationist has more stathmin, less risk-taking gene, and the pro-drilling advocate has less stathmin, more risk-taking gene, how can the two have a reasonable dialogue?”
“The artist has to take risks.”
“One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”
“What's the bigger risk: Taking the risk, or not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by taking the risk, even if you fail?”
“the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks.”
“The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you're going to be.”