I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

People should always find support and understanding in you. Then they will support you 100%.

Don't think that this people are stupid, probably you have caught one, but you didn't finish your work and what now???You were in their trap...

You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

Celebrate Earth Day every day.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

Even a family needs to work as a team.

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.