Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

Storytelling has a narcotic power.