Stockholders are used to a certain kind of global capitalism. This version is very hard on the environment and very hard on people below a certain fiscal level. It is a calculated, systematic weakening of people. Many labour, a few benefit. Try talking about cleaning up the place with these people. The hostility is incredible.

Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain a world that could hold me as the bolts shake loose and fly from my frame.

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche.

Break from self rejection, try some introspection.