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

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

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.

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

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

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

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.