Often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins

Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!

When mankind pushes, natures sometimes pushes back

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

The truth is often one's best shield.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

The strong were always eating the weak.

...burying themselves in his arm was more about feeling his love in the confusion, in the difficulty, than it was about having moved past it.

Lift your eyes and look on the FIELDS (Jon 4:35), there are viable opportunities

I have built my organization upon fear.

They were back. The demons in all their glory. And they had a plan. I made plans sometimes, too, but they rarely involved world domination. Hot dogs on a grill, maybe. Tequila.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.

Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.

A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think they are right, that they are not being forced to write anything.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.