Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live

To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat.

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

I remember thinking, "Far out, I can't believe this," when I started riding waves. Then I was starting to imagine where it could take me.

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.

Maybe one small regret is that I never got to play with Paul Scholes - but I was never going to leave Barcelona and he was never going to leave Manchester United.