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"Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character."
"In the end, the best way to succeed is to go small. And when you go small, you say no - a lot. A lot more than you might have even considered before."
"I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone."
"Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later."
"Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way."
"Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy."
"He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest."
"A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way."
"I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?"
"The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way."
"I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it."
"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled."
"Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things."
"The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity."
"You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door."
"Any way, death is so final, isn't it? "Is it?" asked Richard. "Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down."
"Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way."
"Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do."
"The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation."
"What scientists want next is a thorough comparison of what we and exosolar planets and vagabonds look like. Only in this way will we know whether our home life is normal or whether we live in a dysfunctional solar family."
