If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

Your dreams today are answers to what you are to do, where you are to go and what you have to say in later days of your life.

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.

Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.

I had no idea this thing was televised. Boy, is my face red.

Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.

What you do not eliminate - you accumulate.

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.

Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.