If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

One passionate heart can brighten the world. From person to person the chain reaction burns through us — setting heart to heart ablaze, and lighting the way for us all!

Set your end goal...the steps in between - is your path

Hell was invented to scare to death the unruly human mind and bring it to obedience.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.

The technology will break gun control. I stand for freedom.

I just take one day at a time, pray, and know that whatever happens is God's will, so there's nothing I can do to change that.

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

The key to making sure your credit stays good is paying the bill on time. If you are paying the balance off even if there is something on the card in recent purchases, you are good.

The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.