Nothing happens to a business growth until someone sells its product.

Ignorance is relatively easy to overcome

He was home, but he wasn't. He had gotten where he had to go, but he hadn't. He had found out who he was, but he didn't know why it had failed to satify his questions.

We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with.

... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.

Magnus shrugged. "He also made inappropriate amorous advances to a startled grandmotherly sort selling flowers, an Irish wolfhound, and innocent hat stand in a dwelling he broke into, and myself.

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen.

You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.