The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

True love, the kind that lasts forever, is very rare indeed. It takes compromise, continued growth, and trust.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake

Writing is an art and a skill that can be developed

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

I think sometimes people need to get used to an idea.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.

Only audiences decide what's a franchise. Only audiences decide what's a hit. I have always been mindful of not wanting to be the Miami Heat of movies.