As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

We were so happy.

The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.

A drop of rain can revive the earth, be the drop

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.

That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."

Scripture indicates that heaven is not distant but rather... heaven is near in another realm.

When you see an opportunity to change the world, get up and get the job done!

To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.