There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

Longevity is a big part of credibility.

If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average.

When you fill a void, isn't the void still there?

Keep on smiling, treat people with respect, be cool even if some may not treat you the same. How people treat you doesn't change who you're.

Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

Eureka, Eureka! (I found it, I found it!).

Needless to say, I'll be buying my Irwin Tools at Lowe's.

When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.

What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world.

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.

I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.

If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)