Not all writers are crazy. Only the ones who are serious enough about their craft.

For man always looked to hire a fool to amuse him without knowing he was one all along.

When did you get so clever?""When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

Always explore new opportunities and ideas, you never know which will work for you

Twenty minutes seemed like an eternity, and like no time at all.

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human behaviour I am not so sure.

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.