Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

Your dreams of today will create your future.

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.

Human beings create more than they destroy.

Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.