There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.

The irresistible force meets the immovable object.

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.