To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.

Now, if I had an Indian name, it would be "Stands in Confusion".

Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.

Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him.

God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him

I only wear clothes because I can't walk around with nothing on, but they started calling me a fashionista.

Happiness is a smile of comfort to the sorrowful.

That's the interesting thing about writing. You can start late, you can be ignorant of things, and yet, if you work hard and pay attention you can do a good job of it.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.

I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.