"The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away"

“There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.”

“I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.”

“Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.”

“The difference between MUST & SHOULD is the life you want and the life you have.”

“I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.”

“Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.”

“To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.”

“Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.”