It wasn't until I'd met everyone else's measure of success that I realized I'd failed myself.

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

There is no authority but yourself.

To get through a war, a man needs something bigger than himself to fight for.

One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain.

Chaykin's Shadow is a modern legend at his best.

I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.

I enjoy nothing more than creating new series and watching them grow in front of me month by month. It's a muscle I spent many years developing and it feels good to be using it again.

A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the story.

Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want.

Taking a risk to survive isn’t that impressive. Taking a risk to be happy, that takes guts.

We all want to be seen not for the choices we made ten years ago, but for who we are today.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

By suffering comes wisdom.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

If we try to define our own moral universe, there's a price for that.

The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music.

Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.