Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.
It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.
There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.
To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.