Life comes and goes. …If you know that, you know it all.

You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who’s harming yourself.

When I started to climb, the sky seemed to be sunny and blue. But being up here on the oak tree it is cloudy and foggy.

No level of obstacle can prevail in crippling a mind that's continuously fed with positive self-talk.

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.

What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.