All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

He who retreats lives longer.

Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

Be true to yourself- and keep things simple. People complicate things

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.

you don't get to make withdrawals from the time bank. Only deposits.

I have three joys in my life: work, sport and food. All these come in one and do not make a hobby.

The only true phenom...is me.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

My second hit was a flop.