Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better.

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.