FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying

Good books are for consideration after, too.

I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.