Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.

Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach.

In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories.

Interest is a terrible thing to waste.

Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that they offer.

Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.

Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do.

Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

If you do not believe that listening to the best people in the business telling you what they know will help you succeed, then you have allowed your ego and arrogance to get the best of you.

You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life.

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

William Tell's son, Telly, who said as his father was pointing the bow and arrow at the apple on his head, There's gotta be an easier way to kill worms. Never got a dinner!

I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.

Never let a trend get in the way of creating a great outfit for yourself.