A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

Expect the best, prepare for the worst.

Who you spend your time with is who you are, or who you will soon become.

Miss. My. Wife.

I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one from the other.

Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.

There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?