"Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day"

“I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teach us about life, the world, and, especially in the case of linguistics, the workings of the human mind.”

Source : Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.5, Spiegel & Grau

“Sometimes I don't want to talk about it. Not to anyone. No one. No one at all. I just want to think about it on my own. Because it is mine. And no one else's.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.”

“A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out of energy (or in the case of the novelist-- ideas) because they have so far to run. To mix the metaphor, writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.”

“Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.”

“It's a tough marketplace right now... It is very compressed... A turnaround is likely to happen quicker than before.”

“There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.”