The best thing about money is not worrying about money.

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

You need to believe in your passion, no matter how stupid or insane that might make you look to the rest of the world.

Being awesome really comes down to having confidence.

What do you want for your life? And how are you going to get it? Figure that out. And then follow me to gloryville.

Everyone can be awesome if they want it bad enough. And I don't believe that anyone wants to be average. I think everybody desires greatness, at least at some point in their life.

Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

Most of the awesome people I know are just normal people who were insanely driven.

Do not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for.

To me, pain means you're pushing your body to give you everything its got.

When you feel that creeping self-doubt, acknowledge it. Write down your feelings in your journal... and then continue with your writing.

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

If something is wrong with you, hate someone else for it

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors.

Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.