To get through a war, a man needs something bigger than himself to fight for.

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

There is no authority but yourself.

It wasn't until I'd met everyone else's measure of success that I realized I'd failed myself.

One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain.

Chaykin's Shadow is a modern legend at his best.

I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.

I enjoy nothing more than creating new series and watching them grow in front of me month by month. It's a muscle I spent many years developing and it feels good to be using it again.

A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the story.

Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want.

I stuck my finger in his belly buttonand squiggled it around.“Belly button rape!

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street.

I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady.

Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally.

It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature's capital

Regrettably, people today don't watch many programs that actually teach people how to cook, so I agreed to do a competitive show that I think will provide inspiration.

Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.