I usually am accused of having a crystal ball into which I can gaze and look into the future.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.

Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.

I am one of the world's dreadful technophobes. I was on the internet, but it's broken down and I've unplugged it.

I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.

We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an interpretation and skills that you may not have as a writer.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

you shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole, love means eventual painvictory means eventual defeatgrace means eventual slovenliness, there's no wayout...you see, youunderstand?

Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.