When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

We will continue to see a convergence of the digital and physical world. Those who conquer that trend will be market leaders.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.