I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

Stereotypes have their roots in truth.

I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.

We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.

Lord save the suffering souls.

You are more beautiful at first light then most girls are dressed and glamorous." Dana Christy

He knew, perhaps better than anyone, that we don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

Once in a while you get a moment of clarity - an inspiration - and they don't come that frequently.