What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.

For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.

Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.

Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.

Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . .

For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.

Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.

Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases of rape? Nora Hawks from One Bullet Beyond Justice

...I conducted a number of experiments to get in touch with my future self. Here are my favorite

Afraid of a wooden sword?""Just demonstrating my skills in evading an attack. Impressed?

If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special

There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.

I've always been quite a spontaneous person, so I would lean more towards, if you feel it and you know its right, then do it.

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

The question is, when does the therapeutic community end and the reality kick back in Then, what do you do with them

You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.

Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.