No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

I love you like a fat kid loves cake!

The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

Adversities define what you're made of. Success is you're reward for overcoming them

The void can only be filled with love.

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

For me, it's important that I experience and feel what the characters are feeling. So I put myself in those moments, in their thoughts, and let it happen naturally. I write what I feel.

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

If it feels right in your gut, this is who you are, this is what you do, this is what you feel, then don't hide that. You just stick to it and the world will catch up.

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first.

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.