The best way to vanquish your enemies on the Internet? Ignore them.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good.

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Life is a lonely business

Life is a lonely bussiness

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

My motto for creat

Not only is this not love I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power and claim it for god. God does not seek power, he is already powerful.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

Failure is not the final fall. The will to rise when you fall is fortitude to success.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity.

I'm having a good time. I'm going to treat every game and every day as if they are my last because I now know that they could be.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.