I like hanging around people who knit. They are usually in a good mood. People who are staring into their iPhones *and* demanding your attention at the same time are not as much fun to be around.

To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality.

Everyone's crazy except you and me.

I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old is learning them, and having a lot of fun.

The fact of the matter is, that mistakes are really important way to learn...

In school, we learn that mistakes translate into bad grades. This unfortunate lesson gets burned into our brains, and we go through life shunning challenges that might end in failure.

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

Life blackens at the contact of truth.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.

What people see in the news are places where things have not going so well.

When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

I think there's a part of me that feels the need to hide a little bit behind a character.

It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'.