I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

Much of command is the ability to take command.

This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.