I think it's important to associate with positive, upbeat people.

Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo is arguably the world's most famous polymath. So many thoughts and so many different ideas!

I'm a writer and I also do a lot of professional speaking on risk taking and creativity as well.

I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap.

I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag.

You get energy from other people, so hang out with energetic people.

Yeah, it's a weird little niche, but by God, it's my niche.

In my office, I like it quiet, so I can concentrate.

I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.

Every day, I walk with my dog - summer, winter (it gets -20 F in Saint Paul), rain or shine. The nicer the day, of course, the longer the walk.

I get some of my best ideas while out walking.

Appetite is the beast in man, compassion is his spirit.

An unused conscience is no conscience at all.

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

I love a red lip, especially if I'm going out with friends.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.

I guess the only thing I'd say is it ['There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] shouldn't be read as "Beyoncé is not beautiful."

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.