It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.The day you die.

Every problem is a new puzzle to be solved.

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

The final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]

I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.