the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed