Everybody writes a book too many.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

Everybody writes a book too many.

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a limited partner in many other venture funds which have their own startup investments.

You can't be controlling in improv.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.

Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.

There's a high level of frustration with the two-party system out there.

I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.

If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.

Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

The way the team and the community embraced us when we first arrived, and the way they continue to do so, even today, shows how deep this connection is. I'm honored to be a part of this organization and so proud to retire as a New Orleans Saint.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing, but what you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Budgets that don't balance, public programs that aren't funded, pension funds that are running out of money, schools that aren't funded - How does that help anyone?

Never pick a fight with an ugly person theyve got nothing to lose.

After a storm comes a calm.

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.