Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

...The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite poin

Contemplation and writing demand solitude, which leads to a sorry feeling of isolation and detachment. Writers try to call their loneliness genius, and the world believes them most of the time.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

The worst thing about being strong is no one recognizes the beauty in strength or the love behind it.

The most important thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters. Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will.

Your thought is the parent that gives birth to all things.

Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.

I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.