I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it." - Gallen

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.