It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.
I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.
I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.
I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I tend to leave her there and take the other one.
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.” {Guy Gavriel Kay}
Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.
The spirit of Southwest Airlines is exuberant, it's caring, it's dedicated, it's diligent, it's fun, it's rewarding, it's a joy.
I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.
Just because you don't announce your plan doesn't mean you don't have one.
One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.
Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.
I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.
The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.
It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.
