Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.