Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.

That's what does it-- that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.

I tend to close my eyes when I look at people anymore.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

What's the point of having weak enemies? They just waste your time.