You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters interesting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

When you provide things for free to meet their needs and help them discover their skills, they automatically become your family

Every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed.

I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.

I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.

His art is the health of the artist.

I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.