If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

God has individuals He has positioned for His purpose and to be used as His vessel at different time and season.

Make me strong. Not to be superior to others. To fight my greatest ennemy. Myself.

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from.

I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

We are all connected, and we are all One.

You couldn't attach a 'but' to 'I love you'. You could onlt attach an 'and'.