Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created o….

It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have o….

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy..

Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I kn….

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour..

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile..

You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a god….

In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watc….

When writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence...in love, never settle...value yourself first and this will help you to value others..….

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron..

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off..

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid..

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure..

Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky..

honesty is hard work..

...I know good design when I fail to trip over it..

there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with..

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise..

Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those….

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence..