The most important thing in a story is not what happens, but why it happens.
"The most important thing is to tell a good story. Everything else is secondary."
A great novel is a conversation between the author and the reader across time and space.
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
The growth of an enterprise is essentially the growth of the entrepreneur.