If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.

The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create a new world and describe it with a kind of specificity that we describe the world we inhabit. Religiosity, on the other hand, does none of that.

I don't like things that aren't true.

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

Achievement is talent plus preparation