The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly?

Success has many fathers; failures have none.

It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back.

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.

We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

The luxurious ache of tired but not weary limbs.

The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.