You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.

It seems to me there's so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe, if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamt of.

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.

One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.

If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.

There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.

There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.