It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

If you leave your dreams on your pillow, you might as well just stay in bed. To make dreams come true you’ve got to get up and take action.

Jiu Jitsu is a baptism by combat, and serves a purpose in the inner life of the individual that has always existed, but our modern culture fails to acknowledge.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

Everyone wanted answers I wasn't ready to give.

I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.