At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

I get all of my motivation from my customers.

I just feel I got my inspiration, education and all from others that came before me. And I added my... I don't even know if I added anything. I played what they played, and it sounded different, I guess.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People felt that this was a completely new set of insights into human motivation, and that its therapeutic potential was significant.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.