And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures.

It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn't hinder and God wouldn't hurry.

People think that I'm a nice guy.The truth is that I'm so nasty that I don't allow anyone else to hate me, except myself.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

I write larger than life. It's what I do.

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

It's like carrying a bowling ball! Almost done.

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers.

Who can be patient in extremes?