After nearly 6,000 years of evidence on the subject, one thing stands clear: the people who end up as leaders in any organization, large or small, are often the craziest guys around.

Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.

There are now some mountains that my brain can no longer climb.

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

I would love to have the power to stop waking at 3 a.m. every night to check my e-mail.

I would like to have my consciousness digitally preserved and housed in a pleasant place for later insertion into a fully functional cyborg when that's possible.

I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.

If you are 100% sure that you live, why don´t you live 100%?

Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.

How good life is when one does something good and just!

It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.

I don't like to watch myself. For the most part, I find it weird. It depresses me; I'm very critical.

Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.

Remember to dream big, think long-term, underachieve on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is the key to long-term success.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.