If you'll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now.

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously.

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.

It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.

Keep your identity small.

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.

it takes hope and courage to keep fighting even when the world gives up

They say love is all about raging hormones. For me, it's mind's way of breaking through its self-imposed limitations in order to set the eternally ecstatic soul free.

One truth that has helped me accept some of the most difficult moments and heartbreaking decisions in my life is that I already have all for which I ask. I am blessed! I am delivered from my worries!

Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.

I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.