To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat.

Success can be defined in many ways but failure in only one ... quitting!

There's something to be said about drinking a carafe of wine by yourself ... I just can't remember at the moment what it is! (said after drinking a carafe of wine by himself)

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

It’s not a lie, ” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”“Mm. Those are some of the best lies.

This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

Everything is dead while it lives.

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

The great thing about America is you can live according to your faith. If you're faith says don't use birth control then you don't use it.