Just a beginner, but he learned so fast. Everything came so damn easy to him. Not true. The hard things cam easy. But the easy things he found impossibly hard.

Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched....

Now it seemed unbelievable, the innocence of a girl in a fairy tale.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it." -- William Styron (born June 11 1925)

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.

Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

In putting off what one has to do one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

It's always a great day going to work with Ginnifer Goodwin; she's a fantastic actress and I learn so much from her.

You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.