Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.