It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

A product can be quickly outdated, but a successful brand is timeless.

He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times that of his classmates. They had thought him strange, weird, or even suicidal, depending on the escapade in question, but maybe it had been a simple case of mental overdrive-if anything about being in constant mental overdrive was simple. Anyway, it was the sort of thing you got under control after a while-you got it under control or you found outlets for it.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.