Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments

I lost an arm on my last trip home.

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.