One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.

The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.

I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.

Everything...affects everything

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

In the end....everything matters.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Digital attitude is about adaptability - being experimental and changeable.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.

Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.

Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play

The manager administers; the leader innovates.