The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.

Be patient in painful times.

Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads

The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music has been turned off.

It's easier to get over a thing" Scobie said, "if you talk about it

What Ann Druyan said: Compressed into a minute-long segment, the brain waves of a woman newly in love sound like a string of firecrackers exploding.

I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

The miracle is to walk on the earth.

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

I never talk about things that don't matter. I never talk about things that are unimportant. I always talk about things that interest me.