There is a period for hope and one for mourning.

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.

People are like chains, the closer they are, the stronger they become.

Once words have been said there is no way to un-say them

There is a thin line that separates life from death, but once it's crossed, it becomes as large as an ocean, and so treacherous that it’s impossible to cross back.

It takes just one wave to capsize a boat, and one more to take it down.

Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not.

If GOD can raise a dead man, then He can raise a living man's dead anything.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

The only thing you can do is prepare the best you can and then just accept... stuff happens.

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.