Main thing is just to remember that hard work got me here and only hard work will keep me here.

There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.

Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go.

The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.

HONY is one of the only things keeping people from getting lost in the matrix.

Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion.

It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it.

I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.

Recently we received an invitation that proved just that.

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.

Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little.

The creative mind is a divine force.

There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers much time will go by before it is rectified.

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

My hairdresser in the U.K., Adam Reed, has his own line, Percy and Reed, and it's really good. And I use Moroccan Oil and Kerastase as well.

Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.

The second you realize you're not alienated, that makes you empowered.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

I like things you can touch and things you can keep, because every bit of communication we have is ephemeral in nature. You can just delete an e-mail and it's like it was never there.

To me YES, AND means don't be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you're adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile.