The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish.

Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.