Bidders in an auction are like players in a game—the rules shape their strategies.

To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone.

The real competition is never rivals, but users' old habits.

I'm a great believer in low-budget films.

There's a tendency to think that our present politicians are much worse than we had in the past.But we tend to forget how awful our politicians were in the past.