My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.

Relax," Langdon whispered. "Do your piranha thing.

I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.

God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.

What you look at hard seems to look at you.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

I'd rather be in love and have a baby than have a movie.

You don’t knock on the devil’s door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)