Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, `I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to t….

Don't buy into the idea that women aren't strong enough to do anything they want on their own..

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someon….

I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I start a new scri….

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme..

Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ide….

Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never me….

All great ideas are dangerous..

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties ….

Spend time with your kids and have your own ideas about what they need. It won't take away your manhood; it will give it to you..

And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story b….

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion..

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was goi….

On the higher plane the soul is sexless, and those who wish to rise higher than the physical plane must eliminate the idea of sex..

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before.….

Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas..

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a vic….

Always take yourself seriously... it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the small little….

I think as with everything in life you've got to follow your gut. If you believe it wholeheartedly, then it's not going to feel like you're kind of p….

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met..

Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system had to conform. Instead, I had t….