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Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list.

Don't just write a to-do list write a to-be list.

The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.

If you take away 'Schindler's List' and 'Saving Private Ryan', I like 'Minority Report' a lot.

I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing

Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.

As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

At a basic level venture capitalists are arbitrageurs: they have access to more information than those with the capital, and access to more capital than those with information, and they profit by exploiting the mismatch.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.