A product is something made in a factory; a brand is something that is bought by the customer. A product can be copied by a competitor; a brand is unique. A product can be quickly outdated; a successful brand is timeless.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

Good days and long nights to ya, sai.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.