Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks

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

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

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

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

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

I hate Halloween. I hate dressing up. I hate - I wear wigs, makeup, costumes every day. Halloween is like, my least favorite holiday.

Every culture to me - be it Asian, African, be it whatever - is a source of reference. I don't think I'm 'stealing' it or anything.

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.

Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

But I'm real conscious about what I do. I don't care what the label is. I'm looking at the outcome of it.

It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.