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

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

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

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

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.

Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.

I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice Age 15,' which means basically they'll be in the present decade.

The amount of grace I would expect from God should be equal to the amount of grace I can gather or earn. I get out what I put in.

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation blockades and chemical warfare stockpiles and so on.

As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they're all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do. It's all true.

I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.