No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.

Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after a signing for some beers. They're invariably bright!

If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much, if not more, for international harmony.

If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.

All men of honor are alone.

I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

The human spirit carries a torch called hope.

Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law enforcement. They make criminals look like amateurs.

Man is the master of Woman" - this statement may have been a glorious fact of primitive life in the wild, but it is nothing but an obnoxious stain on psyche of the thinking humanity.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had.

If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.

I never learned how to tie my shoes, and I was mocked for that. I still don't know how to.

in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed.