Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

Complaining does not work as a strategy.

We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.