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

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.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

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

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

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