I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be.

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is.

If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck

You will leave now," said Grdankl the Strong. "Go! Do not be afraid! If you die, it is okay!

When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.