"Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise."

“Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.”

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

“You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.”

“Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.”

“In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I’m broke as hell and one day I...”

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light”

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

“Vision without execution is just hallucination.”

“Sometimes you just have to ask yourself 'Am I having fun?'”

“There’s no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A. ”

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you tr...”

“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”

“You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.”

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”

“The greatest lessons in life are often learned through failure. Embrace it, learn from it,...”

“We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.”