We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube.

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.

When we are, love is not.When we are not, love is.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.

I still look good, though.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

A family needs a father to anchor it.

The United States has worse income inequality than Nigeria.

I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.

Before you taste anything, recite a blessing.