Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts.

The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in.

It's not enough to win the tricks that belong to you. Try also for some that belong to the opponents.

Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.

Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.

I will do my best to transform our trade policy and take on these corporations who want to invest in low-income countries around the world rather than in the United States of America.

Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.

If I think, everything is lost.

Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.