How will it change your status? — Will would it transform you? Will it change how people think about you?

Who’s the work for?

What’s it for?

What is the worldview of the audience you’re seeking to reach?

What are they afraid of?

What story will you tell? Is it true?

What change are you seeking to make?

How will you reach the early adopters/neophiliacs?

Where’s the network effect that will propel this forward?

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

‘Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable, and life's like an hourglass, glued to the table. No one can find the rewind button, girl, so cradle your head in your hands and breathe...just breathe.

Some people think that its holding on that makes one strong sometimes its letting go.

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Cycling keeps me lean and I need to stay in shape, especially as I still like eating chocolate and ice-cream! I like to go mountain biking too. Running is also good; it's what we were designed to do as humans, so it comes naturally.

We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them.

I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

I didn't realize until I was doing commentary what a gladiator-like competition tennis is - other than no one dies. The crowd is waiting for the players to come, and they walk through the tunnel, and they get on the court, and they get out their rackets, their weapons, and now they start.

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising.

Without courage you cant practice any other virtue consistently.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.

When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.