Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice." -Cheryl L. Ilov, Forever Fit and Flexible: Feeling Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

I don't like the grilled onions for some reason. I like regular, crispy, stinky onions.

I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.

Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is actually highly formulaic.

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.