One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy."

Success is a choice, not an option.

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander around and sleep like cats.

I’d eat a picnic in Hades with him.

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell.

The past isn't going to get you to your goal.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.