My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

Yet she also longed for moments when she might be weak, when she need not prove anything to anyone.

Chocolate cured just about everything, but being a crocodile's chew-toy was on a whole other level.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.

Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward.

It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.

The route to the target is more important than the target. We are going to go for the target, but we enjoy the route as well.

Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

I am fearless when I think I'm alone.