It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half of every day. There wouldn't be any native inhabitants. You couldn't expect life - which is fundamentally dependent on light - to develop under such extreme conditions of light deprivation. Half of every axial rotation spent in Darkness! No, nothing could exist under conditions like that.

There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.