Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

Success will ruin your life.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

I haven't got any fan mail from Osama bin Laden. I have no reason to believe he reads my stuff I'll never decide for commercial reasons to put something in that endangers our national security. You just can't do that.

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.