I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.

Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.