The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.

Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.