"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."

"The devil's most devilish when respectable."

"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain."

"First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white."

"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."

"I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there."

"With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense."

"I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold."