The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth

One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.