I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

I like being a writer.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Now the playbook is we build AI tools to go find these fake accounts, find coordinated networks of inauthentic activity, and take them down; we make it much harder for anyone to advertise in ways that they shouldn’t be.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

I’m most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page… sunrise over the desert and masses of… a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.

Never mistake motion for action.

I don’t get up, get dressed, go out, and think, ‚Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.‘

Language is the dress of thought.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

I’ve been known to have a good step or two. I’m half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

A letter does not blush.

There’s a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That’s what writers do when they’re good.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn’t matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn’t really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn’t until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

I’ve been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don’t need to write a book for adults.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It’s hard to break into a network once it’s formed.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

All of my writing is God-given.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I didn’t have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.

Mind over mattress.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.