Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.

Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

I despise this weakness in myself - this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action.

...it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.

I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.

I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

I don't use real people for inspiration.

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

Mysticism is colourful and alluring, but if you are after the truth, science is the best path!

Your kiss swallows meAnd engulfs my very soul

Ninja's understand that training time is never wasted time.

Do not rest, believer, until you have full assurance of your interest in Jesus.

Remember, what may appear to be the source of one's strength can often also be the source of one's weakness.

Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!

In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.

Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.