It has been written that so much of life is preparation, so much is routine, and so much is retrospect that the purest essence of anyone's genius contracts itself to a precious few hours.

Life is a Business, by Worship of Human being, we Earn good Deeds'' -Samar Sudha

Evil is a disease able to spread from one person to another, as each convinces the other that might makes right, moral short-cuts are good things, and your enemies are not human but other

He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.

Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.

I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

People have notions of what a wife's role should be in this process, and it's been a traditional one of blind adoration. My model is a little different - I think most real marriages are.

I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.