You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.
The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it. "
Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.
A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.
Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.
I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even in that whirlwind, we kept heads-down focused on the customers. All the metrics that we can track about customers have improved every year.
Getting the best response from people is how I base my success.
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.