Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

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

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.