Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

It’s okay to get lost every once in a while, sometimes getting lost is how we find ourselves.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Donald Trump has consistently insulted Muslims abroad, Muslims at home, when we need to be cooperating with Muslim nations and with the American Muslim community.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.