Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

He who retreats lives longer.

The danger of procrastination is that it gives you fake impression that you have all the time and makes you forget that time passes by every second and minute.

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness.

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

I sensed she [Sarah Harmer] had this look on her face like, 'Jesus, if you can do it, I certainly can.' But I had nothing to teach her, let's put it that way.

Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.

Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited.

If i'm going to survive, it won't be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I'm not Hercules.

If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.

The modern era of liberalism, the one we're living in, really has as its focus or foundation that America is unjust, immoral, and corrupt, and from the days of our founding.

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.