"I enjoy doing motivational talks with businesses and other organizations. I really enjoy being with people and encouraging them in the work they do."

“At the end of the day, I love eating duck. It's the best thing you can eat on this earth, especially grilled with jalapenos and cream cheese.”

“What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.”

“By putting the gift of yearning for God into every human being's heart, God at the same time draws all people made in God's image to God's self and into their own true selves.”

“What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?”

Source : Michael Connelly (2011). “Michael Connelly - The Harry Bosch Collection (ebook)”, p.842, Hachette UK

“The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.”

Source : "The Year In Violence" by Michael Thomsen, www.ign.com. December 18, 2007.

“Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.”

“We have not won the battle against drug trafficking.”

“Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.”