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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.

I have always focused on the bottom line.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

If you think I'm over-the-top, I am.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.