Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

In the wrong environment your weakness is evident, but in the right environment, you function from a place of strength.

Results? Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.

We're still in this position where we haven't made a lot of decisions yet.

It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.

Okay, that so did me in. Mr. Rock being all emotional? Expressing his feelings?" p. 12

Don't be so glued to what you planned that you can't change it.

... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.

I just hope to make a difference.

But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.