Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

Ice is for death and endings.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory

When someone refuses listening to reason disaster will surely follow.

Silently one by one in the infinite meadows of heaven Blossomed the lovely stars the forget-me-nots of the angels.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list.

Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.

The best fashion accessory is a book.