Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. If you want to write, practice writing.

The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get on the page.

The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone who wants to write—and many of the people who do write—get lost.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.

No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might've had.

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.

Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.

Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.

I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.