Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214

We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.

Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.

Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.