“I have way too much going on, as usual, but fortunately it’s all good stuff. I’m not complaining.”

The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself.

I usually work seven days a week and rarely take vacations, which is both lame and unsustainable. I don’t mind the idea of writing seven days a week, I suppose. Getting some work done early in the morning. But ideally I would love to take one day a week off.

I’m a radio nerd. I’ve loved radio since I was a kid. I’m a huge Howard Stern fan.

I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

I didn’t care to practise as much. That is my only regret.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.