You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing goes out and gets published.

I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.

You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of." "Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds." "What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.