Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

live your life as if you may lose everything.

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

Life is a series of choices that are made in the present moment.

Danger will wink on opportunity.

You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

It’s a new world, brother. And we, the downtrodden, are taking it back. (Madoc)

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.