Books were my escape, they transported me to other worlds without step-mothers.

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.

Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.

We make our tools, and then they shape us.

It is a very powerful feeling to know that my work is affecting people and to hear it from them directly.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follow-up is the answer to a bureaucrat's prayers.