There is no such thing as an appropriate joke. That's why it's a joke.

You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors.

What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.

The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That is how writing as a profession continues: readers becomes writers who inspire new readers.

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

We're all homos. Homo sapiens.