Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb

There are now some mountains that my brain can no longer climb.

Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.

I would love to have the power to stop waking at 3 a.m. every night to check my e-mail.