There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now.

You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction.

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.

The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem.

Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

Count the times. The number of times you have seen the silence of another world seep though a crack. The number of times you have heard the sea trying to escape from the blue painted wall.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

I think there are people living in Walmart dressed up as employees.

We called [my son] Gary "Little Herschel" when he was in middle school - but then he didn't grow any taller. He ended up playing golf and being a really nice golfer.

I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.

I've never been much given to little social cliques.

I am a tropical black man.