Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.

True freedom requires taking responsibility for your own life. That frightens the hell out of too many people. They prefer to have Big Brother holding a safety net for them, and they'll sell their own birthright and their children's as well to keep it.

My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.

Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.