Instead of you trying to impress others, why don't you strive to become the one that people would love to positively impress?

...being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...

Time is life.Time for birth, time for death.

We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don't win the silver or gold.

I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.

"Some human activity linked to climate change." That bothers me much more than whether or not we're gonna be prosecuting Hillary [Clinton].

We have the capacity to alter the nature of nature. No, we don't have just the capacity - we are altering the nature of nature, the natural systems that cause the planet to function in our favor.