Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing is the only way to go.

Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one.

Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top.

No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Too many people have died so unnecessarily; AIDS is completely preventable, yet it's killing more kids in South Africa then everything else, and that's just not how it should be.

When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.

When you have life, [it's] the most graceful, amazing thing to happen.

No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just go online.

as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

Eve-"In the name of all that is holy...It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process?" Roarke-"Amen