Backstory is like a flavour you can’t quite pick, lurking in the layers of a curry. You know it’s there and it enhances the flavour, but it’s intangible and fleeting. Use it sparingly!

Suspense doesn’t always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.

To be a footballer means being a privileged interpreter of the feelings and dreams of thousands of people.

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.

Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.

the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.

I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well, and I think it has an effect on me.

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.