Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.

It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.

it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.

things never seem as bad as they are.

It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.

... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.

Respect is both earned and lost.

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

I came to realize that we don’t raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.

It only takes one extra something! To get you to where you trying to get to!

Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.

I am ready to be healed. I am willing to forgive. All is well.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.