I know nothing about letting go.

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.

God is my supermanI tug on his cape:

Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I "step aside" as CEO of GM, and so I have.

Men who know are secure. Men who don't know believe in luck.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

True love is measured by the thermometer of suffering.

I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.