It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

Every act of goodness is born from our desire to be happy.

You have two options. work on someone else's ideas and make some money or generate ideas make them work and become a millionaire.

Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream and died without joy, in silence and isolation.

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

Teaching kids about money is never just about money.

I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.

The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.

I think people at most record labels really like music, but it's hard because everything is so subjective, and everyone's so creative in their own right.

The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.