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Spain?" Jesse said and glanced about at the others, but they looked equally perplexed. "Spain?" "Yes, to Baldr's castle. Where did you think he lived? The North Pole?

I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.

An assumption exists that long sentences are bad, but it is usually the case that bad sentences are long.

I think satire is at its best when it's taking on something that's really important, but doing it in a way that's funny and engaging.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequence come from little things... I am tempted to think there are no little things....

They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.

The deep hurt is the mirror image of the deep joy that still awaits you.

they put a special meaning on such a word as "patriotism"; it was not something you talked about very much, just a living force that you instinctively responded to.

I'd seen common elements of healing practices—most prominently, the use of rhythm and an emphasis on harmony with nature.

one of the most powerful tools we use to help regulate a distressed infant is rhythm.

Oprah: Regulation, relationship, and reward.

But all of the successful models have one thing in common: They emphasize regulation and connection.

Memory research that supports a non-pathologizing, coherence-based model of symptom production in the wide range of cases where symptoms are generated by emotional memory. This is the central perspective of the Emotional Coherence Framework.

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

The neurotic's desire is not his or her "own" in the first place, for it has never been subjectified. Subjectfication is the goal of analysis: subjectification of the cause-that is, of the Other's desire as cause.

Note how stereotypical the traits are that he assigns to her – she could be almost any woman celebrated in courtly love poetry.

given the amount of material Freud provides in the case study, but one point which seems amply clear is that all of the Rat Man's problems are intimately related to his father.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

The main accent has to lie on diction, narratorship, not of course in a modern sense . . . but in an old Quintillian-based sense. —Frans Brüggen11

what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

You can think of the difference between tactical and strategic oversight as the difference between doing things right and doing the right things. Both are required.

Government involvement, whether in the form of regulation, liabilities, or direct funding, isn't a panacea, but neither is its absence.

He became a firefighter, reentering the blue-collar world I'd known so well