Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

In the non-material scenario, both temple or total quality gets raised, deploying communication as mortar, culture as reinforcement, and commitment as concrete.

Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.

I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision." "Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now.

It was good and nothing good is ever lost.