“An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.”

“Creatively Outspoken and Dramatically Quiet”

“Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion.”

“People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there must be an intelligent designer--a God. Similarly, the economy looks designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that we need a designer--a government. In fact, emergence and complexity theory explains how the principles of self-organization and emergence cause complex systems to arise from simple systems without a top-down designer.”

“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.”

“Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation. ”