When you are handed something instead of having to work for it, you don't respect it as much..

You have to be willing to recognize failure..

You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian.

You will never find a better friend to the United States than Australia..

No one is ever going to be as good as I was.

It can always get worse..

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer..

Faith is always about the Future..

Someone else's success is not your failure..

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information..

Always listen for what you can leave out..

If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that if you don't have freedom ….

When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia..

I don't say any word that I don't approve..

Telling someone they're wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what's right..

And yet, she knew she could be..

Love. Resoundingly and absolutely..

I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are ste….

I don't really see myself as famous..

By nature I'm not a brooder..

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted..