Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.

The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

Trust is won not given.

Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.