I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was number one on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.

The sacred souls dream sacred dreams.

Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?

I think very fundamentally to being Libertarian is not having a social agenda. I accept who you are and the life that you live as long as your life does not adversely affect mine.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them.

Dinah Shore? Wonderful woman. Dinah formed a foundation to locate missing senior citizens by putting their pictures on prune juice bottles.

If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.