I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.

Love has not a value, though we treasure it dear, it's worth more than gold, that's why I keep you so near.

melanin touchesyour eyes like thesun kissed bliss ofmankind

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

I often work by avoidance.

It is clear that there would nothing a U.N. Security Council resolution that condemned Syria because Syria is Russia's ally, and Russia has a veto in the U.N. Security Council.

I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.

Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.

March on, the Lord is our General.

Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.