“Research by Scanlan has demonstrated that some individuals can work onlyat 20–30% of their ability and still retain their jobs. I suggest they retain their positions by making sure that they only follow official directives and policies as much as “visibility necessitates” yet ignore most everything else at work that mayneed their attention!”

“Who else but a lover retains the ability to wound the other person with such passion, such precision? And who else but that lover has the capacity to heal what he or she has done?”

“When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.”

“From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with other people’s art and ideas...”

“I don't want to work a 9-5 job, because 20 hours a day is just too much.”

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”