Compromise is such an integral part of being a human being. You're compromising in every decision you make.

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

There is no authority but yourself.

It wasn't until I'd met everyone else's measure of success that I realized I'd failed myself.

To get through a war, a man needs something bigger than himself to fight for.

One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain.

Chaykin's Shadow is a modern legend at his best.

I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.

I enjoy nothing more than creating new series and watching them grow in front of me month by month. It's a muscle I spent many years developing and it feels good to be using it again.

A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the story.

Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.

Their promise, my children's possibilities, still linger in our home.

If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

Art is nothing but humanized science.

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

It's fine," I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.