hope is just a feeling...will is the real thing....

Silence is golden...but in times of tyranny it is blood red

I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

I am with you because I want to be, not because I need you. It's my will be with you. And that makes it much stronger, because God knows I'm as stubborn as they come.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.

The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

If a lot of money goes into the stock market, it'll push up prices, making money for stock speculators. Then the insiders can decide that it's time to sell out, and the market will plunge.

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.