With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins

Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!

When mankind pushes, natures sometimes pushes back

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

The truth is often one's best shield.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

The strong were always eating the weak.

They say she is too much to handle, but when the moon pulls the tide and the wolves howl her name, blessed are the ones who have been taken by her wild.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital... He said, 'You have a gift... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.

It's interesting that you don't always fall in love with someone that you're perfectly perfect for.

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

Sure. Knock yourself out. No, really. Hammer to the head, works every time.” Claire

Don't just reach for the stars. Grab a hold of one, grasp it tightly, and pull it into your heart and soul.

I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.