In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

How weightlesswords are when nothing will do.

Use your passion and expertise to provide long term value and innovative solutions for your clients

Which direction?" Robard asked. "Robard, " I said exasperated, "we need a boat. I believe boats are kept at or near the ocean.

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

Take each other for better or worse, but not for granted.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.