“You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.”

“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”

“I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal.”

“You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.”

“You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.”

“You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to.”

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”

“You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.”

“My advice is to get a good agent and a good tax accountant if you ever make any money, and remember, you can't eat fame. And you can't write unless you want to write, and you can't want to unless you feel like it.”

“This very remarkable man
Commends a most practical plan:
You can do what you want
If you don't think you can't,
So don't think you can't – think you can.”