Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you.

A gypsy girl approached Don Zana and Alfanhui and held out her tambourine. Don Zana said to her, 'You don't pay for art, kid.

But Alfanhui didn't want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn't tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their strength.

Yes, I felt very small. The typewriter seemed larger than a piano, I was less than a molecule. What could I do? I drank more.-pg 237

Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world's defects.-pg 129

It is wise to do what you love.

Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity or if it is insisted upon by a commander irresponsibility.

Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.

Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big.

There's a big difference between poll workers and pole workers. Sadly.

Cyber theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States by far.

The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

Beautiful women are the torment of my existence.

Albertans have always worn their passions on their sleeves.