What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away.

You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.

People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable.

A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing their clients' money on to people who, as a whole, cannot possibly outperform the market.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.