Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

They wanted them to look like the Gods. God doesn't look like this.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins