Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.

To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.

At the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void.

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.

Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.

If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.

My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle

Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront with your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes!

Impossible is what you say to yourself when you have given up.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

You will learn more about the people you work with in three minutes by asking them what they do for nothing, than by working with them for three years in the same team

A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.