Just remember who you are... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.

Commander! Sir! Wake up!" Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're visiting all the scenes of the great murders. Tomorrow they want to see where Becket was killed. They're a bloodthirsty lot, it seems.

If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.

Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.

He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire

Crow walked toward her, arms outstretched like a man in a dream, which he was, in a way. Sometimes a dream is enough.