Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany. '
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.
The greatest motivator of change is a crystal-clear vision of what the future should look like.
I'm a fatalist. I believe things happen for a reason, that you attract people and situations that are meant to fulfil your path.
God, I had great people in my life.