The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.

There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book twice.

Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.

Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed

Education is a change of mind, an acceptance, and an assimilation.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

I love anybody who has convictions enough to make mistakes because only people who make mistakes get into enough trouble to be called drama, I think.

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.

Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.