Everything we make in life, eventually, is sold for a dollar or a penny or given away.

Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

To win, depend on your thoughts and actions but not on circumstances.

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.

I was the life and she was the soul of every party.

Don’t call us people with disabilities… we have DIFFabilities!

When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.

The headlines are critically important. The majority of the public reads little else when deciding whether or not they are interested.

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.