There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth

Adversity is a mirage. People, situations, and relationships sometimes change for the worst but inevitably clear a path for far better replacements. The continued journey will always find bliss.

Remain assiduously stubborn with your positive thinking, sooner or later the world around you will give up and let you have your way

A fiction writer is nothing more than the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how many people their work entices to relocate

When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life

Venture deep into the wilderness of lost thought to the point that you physically shiver with apprehension, and there you will find creativity

Thank God for all of your short comings because it gives the people who don’t belong in your life something to hang their insecurities on as they drift away in a cloud of delusional perfection.

Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours

There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.

Emotions retain a timeless photographic memory. Good or bad, you can never forget how a person makes you feel.

The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way

If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

I mean by this Sacrament an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience.

I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

I don't understand people who won't sign autographs or have pictures taken.

I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.