When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with her each day. She's always immensely glad to see me, her eldest child, her only son.

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

Best selling authors are always worth listening to, even if you choose to ignore their advice.

I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.

I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies.

Don’t you just love children? If they’re not disappointing you, they’re dead.

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.

I like TV on demand and Cheetos.

The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.

When it comes to the Internet, people like dealing with people.

We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.