I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that's where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing.

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.

A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.