Writing is a solitary occupation.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

We all suffer from dreams

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!

For Man to tell how human life began is hard

Geniuses are their own saviors.

That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.

Well, girls love Justin Bieber... But real women have Letogasms

Advice for playing Starseed Pilgrim: As long as you still have questions, continue.

Life is a continual flow of events, streaming in from the universal stream of consciousness in such a way that it exactly matches our own stream of consciousness.