Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.

People don't want other people to be people.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?

It is about looking straight ahead and not shifting that focus. Keep your eyes on the prize!

The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.

Mmmm! Lunch and no cleanup! Can life get better? I submit that it can NOT!

List 20 things you are going to do in the next 30 days to fast-start your career. Then take action on at least one of them.

Signatures of all things I am here to read.

Donald Trump says five things: everyone's dumb, he's going to make America great again, we're going to win, win, win. He's winning in the polls.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.

I would never say that I'm not going to do something. I like not being limited.

There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.