Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Success lasts a lifetime but stops at the end of your life. Significance lasts many lifetimes and continues long after you’re gone.

Do not discern it differently -- pursue it differently.

I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. Isummoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind.

Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.

I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.

I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.

I have a funny process : it’s called procrastination.

If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around earth-give me a place to go and I'll go.

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

Never say the number because it suggest that you are unable to pronounce the name of the wine you are ordering.