Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want.

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

There is no authority but yourself.

It wasn't until I'd met everyone else's measure of success that I realized I'd failed myself.

To get through a war, a man needs something bigger than himself to fight for.

One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain.

Chaykin's Shadow is a modern legend at his best.

I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.

I enjoy nothing more than creating new series and watching them grow in front of me month by month. It's a muscle I spent many years developing and it feels good to be using it again.

A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the story.

To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly.

Humans are not simply higher than Gods, Gods are mere mystical representations of the humans themselves.

Love is the most beautiful sacrifice.

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known.

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can't find anyone to let me give them to.

I'm not a big shopper.

I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.