"When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity."

“If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money.”

“Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.”

“Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself”

Source : Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

“Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.”

Source : 'Letters to his Son' (1774) 22 February 1748

“Use your own intuition. You are tomorrow.”

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.”

“I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.”

“Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.”