If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.