For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good.

The little weasel ripped all the buttons off my couch.Ivan Petrovsky, pg 350

If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now.

You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober.

One of the best ways of showing pluralism in action is for people to do service together, and that has so many benefits.

Swords and knives make me feel vulnerable.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

Is this just what you do? You start to get involved, get scared when the emotions are too much, and then dream up any excuse you can to run? Or to invite the other person to dump you?

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of