I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks.

The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us, ' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.

A man works for his own dreams but a great man works for their dreams.

You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration

NLP is an attitude and a methodology, not the trail of techniques it leaves behind

I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.

But it's about health, not forcing my body to be something it's not meant to be.

There have been times when you doubt yourself. You don't know if you're working on the right things.

The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood by all who will read it seeking God's help and being willing to follow it.