Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.

Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.

The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts.

The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.

Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.

Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!

[Smil] estimates that two of every five humans on Earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber's invention of the Haber-Bosch process.

It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

You don't have to explain something you never said.

The bottom line is that Dennis Brown is alive and well, and he's got two lungs and they're kicking and I'm still spitting out them notes.

As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.

I think it's great in any job to be doing well and doing it the best that you can, so that's pretty great. But I wouldn't call myself a celebrity in any way. I'm just doing my job.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

I have a great band. Oh, man. I'm so happy about them.