if the count of monte cristo could escape the chateau d'if, william smithback could escape from river oaks

nothing is impossible. you just need to learn how to bend the rules.

The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers.

Ambition interests me because it’s such a surefire indicator of damage.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

If your fridge is full this Christmas, use nature's refrigerator - your car!

No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.

I never meant to push or shove you. Do you know how much I love you?

I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.

I always think it's a mistake when you actually have to set books aside and actually sit down and research something. I always think they've got to come from within.

I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.