I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and more likely to spend time on the things I expect to succeed at.

With rare exceptions, people are responsible for what they do.

I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.

Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it.

Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from, say, an athlete to an actor to a politician.

And wishes, truly wishes, that she could say the same herself. Because hurting herself would be so much easier.

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

I'll run through things over and over and over again in my head and think, "How could I have done that better?" Silly things like that.

I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that.

If you do not care about your end user immensely, especially in the next few years, your brand will die.

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.

Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n Robots' we'd still be together.