Success and talent aren’t even in the same neighborhood.

I love writing, but I would be able to love it more if that love wasn’t motivated by fear of homelessness.

Soul is soul.

Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.

Damien glared at the buxom beauty before him and almost gave in to the urge to strangle her himself.

Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.

Cars are not a suit of clothes; cars are an avatar. Cars are an expansion of yourself: they take your thoughts, your ideas, your emotions, and they multiply it.

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality