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.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

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.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

The thing is that what you see on Snapchat, that’s DJ Khaled. That’s Khaled for real. That’s Khaled.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

As I read more and more – and it was not all verse, by any means – my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

I was told that someone on Facebook said something ‚horrible‘ about me. Who cares? At least they’re watching the show.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

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.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

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

I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

There’s backlash about everything I do.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don’t obey the rules of progression for novels. I don’t think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let’s say a chunk of fiction.

A letter does not blush.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it’s kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years – maybe even sooner.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

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