The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

Carl Hiaasen

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Joel A. Barker

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.

American Indian Proverb

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

T. S. Eliot

That's why many fail -- because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

Tobias Wolff

My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.

Carson Daly

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

Jacques BeNigne Bossuet

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Johann von Goethe

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Donald Trump

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.

Jonathan Krohn