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.

Danger is an aphrodisiac.

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.

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.

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