Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.

Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown.

Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come to bear.

The real failure is to rob this world of the contribution only you can make, and to fail to make work that truly gives you that 'this is what I was created to do' feeling that has no equal.

The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

I liked a lot of alternative and I like punk stuff.

Let's hope the first comes first.

Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.

It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.

If you act like you can do something, then it will work.