I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

How was I supposed to know what’s real and what’s not? It feels like I’m the only one who doesn’t know the difference.

This was the threshold to the place of the dead.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.

Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.