Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes - while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes

Somebody said once 'Follow the money' and that is what it is all about.

If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.

But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.