The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

The truth is helpless when up against perception

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

If your Idea cannot CHANGE the INDUSTRY, you have added no VALUE

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

It's our flaws who make us who we are.

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.

Don't have too much story for the time you have.

When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.

Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane.