Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.

It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale, either the ones with complete breadth, or complete depth.

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".