The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.