Everything takes longer and costs more.

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

...with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

What man has done, man can aspire to do.