Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness...

Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore.

He remembered believing there had been a time when monsters roamed the earth. The brave hearted fought flesh-and-blood dragons instead of shadowboxing their inner demons, the sport of modern man.

Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.

Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.

I know I'm flawed - but perfect is boring anyway! Flawed is good!