“If I wrote an autobiography, I'd have to sue the author for defamation...”

“It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.”

“By operating without a leader the scout bees of a swarm neatly avoid one of the greatest threats to good decision making by groups: a domineering leader. Such an individual reduces a group's collective power to uncover a diverse set of possible solutions to a problem, to critically appraise these possibilities, and to winnow out all but the best one.”

“All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.”

“guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority.""well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.”

“The difference between men I have camped with and myself, generally speaking,' Mary Roberts Reinhart wrote, 'has been this: they have called it sport; I have known it as work.”

“I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses”