The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

Guilt is a good friend, isn't it? It will stand at your back when every other friend has abandoned you, and in the face of all reason it will stay by your side, and even when you tell it, "I am moving on now," it will say, "I shall never leave you; never." If only I could find a lover as faithful as guilt.

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.