It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.

To my astonishment I saw him standing at a table with Kitty Jones. It was the Kitty Jones bit that was astonishing. Not the table. Though it was very nicely polished.

In literary history generation follows generation in a rage.

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders.

I'm just getting to know myself. I'm no wherwhere near to being concise about it yet. I can't define myself. Wait a minute - I'm angry, I'm funny and I'm trying.

Goals are only important if they win games

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be.

I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.