Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

Never underestimate the power of Abby Joseph Cohen.

Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.

In general, great companies prefer to grow organically, as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.

Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?

Without toil, would there be any tears?

Love is about filling up the space, not making more holes.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

We need to invest at the local party unit and focus our energy on turn out. That's how we come back, and we can come back.

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

I just love a challenge, whether it’s a relationship, my career, clothing.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

Life is too short to be small.