The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

People die when curiosity goes.

I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.

Children are the greatest blessing from God.

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

Dying is for fools. I'm proud of what I created. I exposed people to magic. I exposed people to things they would never see in their normal lives.

How far can a person go... and still live with himself.

I like having some things very clear while other things are obscured... so that it kind of keeps coming into and out of focus.

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

and i was right here , almost right within reach , but still one thousand mile away

I honestly believe that with a strong mind, you can literally 'will' the ball into the hole.

It doesn't matter what any of my teammates have said about me.