Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

Be a man of value and the universe will pay you for the value you add to it.

If your brand isn't visible, it won't be viable.

Be careful walking down the primrose path. You may find hell instead of happily ever after.

As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate.

There is no suggestion box in the Psych Ward.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.