It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.