you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.

There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.

If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.

Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!

some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?