“I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.”

“There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.”

“I like to hit the gym early in the morning. I feel better throughout the day when I get in a workout first thing in the morning.”

“Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.”

“My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.”

“During the off-season, I go to the movies almost every day.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother...”

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

“Id never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”

“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.”

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”

“Musics the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. Theres always music. If Im not playing it, Im listening to it. With my writingsometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highl...”