"I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting."

“The best things are not bought and sold.”

“I don't like plain nails. I get sad.”

“I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make.”

“Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.”

Source : Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

“Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'”

“I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.”

“If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.”

“Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.”

Source : Steve Adolph, Alistair Cockburn, Paul Bramble, Andy Pols (2003). “Patterns for Effective Use Cases”, p.18, Addison-Wesley Professional