Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after a signing for some beers. They're invariably bright!

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.

If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much, if not more, for international harmony.

If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

All men of honor are alone.

I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

I think I know the delights of freedom

Someone would have to be out of their mind not to come back to you. I walked through a blizzard to get here.

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

That's twice he (Terry Phelan) has got between himself and the goal.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.

Money can be translated into the beauty of living.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.