Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.

Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Mach-5, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.

Live up to other people's best attributes, not down to their worst.

Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.

Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there.

God finds a way to weave even your mistakes into the fabric of a brighter future if you let Him.

At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn’t exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale.

I miss the way you got me high by that deadly hypnotizing smile.

We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.

You can't take care of yourself.

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

Thongs are the leading cause of pregnancy in the United States.

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

Art and politics have many things in common.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.