I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.

In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

friendship is love made bearable.