Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do what experience tells you to do and what your nerves let you do.

Understand that all motivation is internal, or intrinsic.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

My first break was becoming a staff writer on the rebooted '90210.' And then I got stuck writing in the teen genre for a while.

Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.

I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words

Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.