I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.

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

Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

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

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.