Anytime his gaze fell upon her, it was always the same. That awful chest pain, so relentless it was like his heart exploded.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but boys it is all hell.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

I'm never satisfied with what I do.

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

...the Gods too love a joke.

Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery guideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but a majesty scepters the flowing.

And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

I feel like creating things without getting too hung up on little details, and paying more attention to the importance to the concept itself, is the way to move forward.