Neal Stephenson Quotes

I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.

Entertainment is there to improve people's quality of life. After your basic needs, there's entertainment.

But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.

My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.

A lot of things we don't have to have, but they're enjoyable.

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

I love sport as long as it's kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.

To me, wealth is the peace of mind you have, your family, your friends, your colleagues. Everything else is just money, and it really is funny how people pay so much attention to that.

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

I love 'The View,' so when you're living the dream, it's not work.

I was just happy with having friends that I liked and going to shows that I wanted to see.

I wouldn't do anything I don't enjoy.

I want to keep having fun like I have done all my life.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.