Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

I am a citizen-at-large, of everywhere and nowhere, so sometimes I get pretty homesick.

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

And smiles to go before I weep, And Smiles to go before I weep.

As a kid, image played a huge part. I'm sure most kids find the image of the guitarist exciting.

My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.