Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival

On staring out at a gloomy day: First you must realize that it is the day that is gloomy, not you. If you want to be gloomy, too, that's all right, but it's not mandatory.

The first lesson of branding: memorability. It's very difficult buying something you can't remember.

To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.

There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature.

You never understand anybody that loves you.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

'She's Country' obviously changed a lot of things for us and pretty much, I think, doubled our crowd size in just a few months time.

Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.

The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.

The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?