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For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains. ”
I like banks because they keep my money safe, but I don't want to talk about banks 12 times a year. ”
I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives. ”
I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice. ”
That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting. ”
Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me. ”
If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny little red bathing suits running around saving lives. ”
A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy. ”
We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us. ”
The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it. ”