If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.

If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.

Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.

I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

You have a great God who loves you and cares about you. Be full of hope that something good can happen to you. God is a master at new beginnings. He loves fresh beginnings, He makes all things new.

I was never one to stand on a soap box and say, "This is how you need to live your life!" It was never about that.

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

Robots want to love us because the field of artificial intelligence has programmed robots to say they want to love us.

He was the unloving father that I never had, but I still craved his acceptance.

You don't have to be a genius to invest well