The only things I can’t offer you are children and politicians: the first is illegal and the second is expensive

This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.

Every New Yorker thinks they’re automatically better than everyone else in every other city on the planet: even their unnems were a better class of beggars.

Sometimes respect is as hard a currency as money is

What did journalists know of tech, anyway? Who gave a damn about the press? We were the Good Guys. Changing the World. Doing the Important Stuff.

Discrimination is not just racial now. It’s also about the kind of body parts you have.

On some days it felt like we owned the Earth, and the only place left to expand to was the next planet down the line.

She's my sun and I'm her moon connected by an invisible thread, bound but free.

He had no big plan for this. He had not prepared for the day when he would be fighting his own work. He had not plotted against his own plots.

MY FRIEND: SO DO YOU TAKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS?ME: SURE DO HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS.MY FRIEND: COOL WHAT LANGUAGE?ME: MATH.

One of the saddest things is the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day day after day is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day nor make love for 8 hours.

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

Temper justice with mercy.

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.