I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.

Almost everyone agrees the world is not the way it ought to be. It's called the problem of evil.

Don't give up before you get off your feet. Put the time in to learn what you can, build relationships, and develop quality content.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.

We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes.

In the long run, the cream always rises and the crap always sinks.

If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before.

The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.