We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.

Innovation is not about technology, it's about solving real problems.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.