It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

Funerals aren't scheduled.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

From this day forward, you will be my sun at dawn and my stars at night, and I vow to love and cherish you for all our days.

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

Facts and particulars annoy me.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

The Earth doesn't care what we need; Mother Nature doesn't negotiate.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.