I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.

As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.

But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat.

That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.

Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.

All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.

A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

Do what gives you a buzz.

I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.

As a leader you should look in the mirror and ask yourself would I follow you ensured of a victory.

you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...

Life. Is a sentence, therein, weave your story toward freedom.

I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.

Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is

Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

I think that growing up is something that you should do gradually.

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.