Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.