Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins

Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!

When mankind pushes, natures sometimes pushes back

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

The truth is often one's best shield.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

The strong were always eating the weak.

Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

Hopelessness is advance failure in a disguised envelope. People are crippled to have bed-ridden dreams just because they don't believe they can take progressive steps with those dreams.

That orbed maiden with white fire laden Whom mortals call the moon.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God.

Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.