Write til your fingers bleed.

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

You can feel good about failure. Failure means you did something. You finished the story even if it wasn't what you'd hoped. Failure means you're learning. Growing. Doing.

Enter the story as late as you can.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.

We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

Leadership can mean defiance.

We think the future is robots and hovercars and maybe it’s really here.

Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.

All hail the light, the dark, and the grey.

You can’t be friends with a droid.

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

Some problems are imaginary and not real.

He's a unique dog, Mr. Bell had said. There is no other in the world that looks or acts just like him.

The great flaw in the American economic system has finally been revealed: an unrealistic faith in the power of prosperity rather than in the ultimate power and benevolence of God.

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.

If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home.

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings