You know that look a cop gives you when he's so confused that he doesn't even know how to respond? If you don't know that look, it means you haven't had enough fun in your life.

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become.

As a general rule, whenever guys have problems approaching girls, it's because they're afraid of rejection or they're afraid of something specific. The way that you get over a fear like that is you figure out what the worst is that can happen.

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

The only thing that someone could say about me that would hurt me would be something that's true that I don't want to be.

Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.