... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

The secret to succeeding in business, is in the first two letters of business... BU.

To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential

I’d rather spend the rest of my life without ever seeing you again, ” he says, “than watch them destroy you because of me.

Once your health is taken away, you have nothing.

A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.