"Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable."

“Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition of Bladerunner, with the nostalgia of New Orleans. With crisp and beautiful prose, AFTERLIFE blurs the line between the living and the dead to ask life's ultimate questions-even if they take nine lives to solve.”

“International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were still insular and therefore curious about each other's potential.”

“Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.”

Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.147, Univ of California Press

“No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.”

“Unsuccessful people think about what they don’t want most of the time. They talk about problems, listen to news & gossip, & spend their time blaming circumstances, situations & others. Successful people think about what they want & how they will get it. They are intensely focused on their goals & the information needed to help obtain them. Which person are YOU?”

Source : FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Jun 26, 2014

“Every author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher.”

“By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.”

“Great Britain revolutionized parts of their regulatory process by actually bringing the people who were going to be regulated to the table and suddenly found that they could solve the problems at a lot lower cost by, again, going back to the thing that tends to be most uninteresting, particularly in cable news, and looking at the actual process.”

Source : "A Congressional Exit Interview". Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, www.bloomberg.com. June 22, 2012.