If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.

Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.