Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

The hand is defined as "the organ of apprehension." How perfectly the definition fits my case in both senses of the word "apprehend"! With my hand I seize and hold all that I find in the three worlds—physical, intellectual, and spiritual.

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

I never freestyle. I always give a written verse cause I just don't wanna go out like that.

I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.

WWE is like, you can't really get a bigger production as far as traveling wise and what they do on a day to day basis.

I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.

Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

I was trained as an economic theorist; my job at MIT was as an economic theorist. At some level that's still part of my identity.