The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?

I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow.

Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.

Listening. Nice idea but difficult to do with constant road and air traffic all around all the time. Please consider getting around by quieter means. Feet, bicycle, horse, it's up to you

When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.

It’s become clear that our gadgets give us ever more freedom to do anything our socially isolated little hearts desire—except stop using them.

There is nothing so actively alive as the dead.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

Success is something you attract, by becoming an attractive person.

E-books are impervious to analogy.

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.