Even technology companies get good news sometimes.

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

Never underestimate the power of Abby Joseph Cohen.

Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.

In general, great companies prefer to grow organically, as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.

Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

Silence, too, can be torture.

Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven.

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

The hole was playing downwind and I managed to get a good bounce.

On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly.

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.