The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University.

We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.

It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count?

The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.

I don't like to lose. I don't expect to lose.

Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.