If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.