I love getting into the basement of a courthouse, and all the dusty records - all that stuff makes me really happy.

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.

We're naturally afraid of a spider - these are memories that are being chemically passed down through your DNA.

I tend to be a very logical, practical person.

Your truth really can't be twisted. It is what it is. That doesn't mean that a person can't develop and change and reinterpret their life.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

I don't think I've ever done anything that's completely the same, yet.

I would never say that I'm not going to do something. I like not being limited.

I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.

I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.

I think Scotland is probably my spiritual home and I love it there very, very much.

With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and copying my every move. I felt this proved he was intelligent.

Passion + Purpose = Prosperity.

We offend God because we do not know His greatness.

Your state of mind dominates your awareness to such an extent that you can't conceive of any other state of mind other than the state of mind that you're in.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.

If you know how to shoot, and are quite ready to shoot, the chances are that you won't have to shoot.

Enobaria smiles at Johanna. 'Don't look so smug,' says Johanna. 'We'll kill you anyway.

And I only do what I do in life, which is model.

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.