Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're feeling inspired or not; never be afraid to take chances, in fact, make sure you take chances. As soon as you become complacent, you become boring ... . Read as much as possible, not simply in the genre, or what you think you're interested in, but other things as well.

It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.