Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

Life is better when we imagine it

Mediocrity has a way of keeping demons from the door.

In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's anger ever won over a man.

I don't write poems to melt your heart.I write them, so our heartscan melt together.

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

A snowflake falls, so tenderly on your lips, I have learned to love this winter.

This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.

I wanted to be funny for people who didn't care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a silly character.

There are only patterns. Patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns, patterns hidden by patterns, patterns within patterns.

He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.

Humans make mistakes. Programmers are bound to make mistakes. Hackers, you can bet your life, are going to be there to exploit those mistakes.

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.