Don't look up at the mountain. Keep your head down, and take the next step.

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

Giving up drinking for life is easy.I've done it loads of times.

Laugh and the world laughs with you.Fart and you're on your own.

You only get one life.Too bad you already made a mess of it.

If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast.

If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times.

Failure is something you experience on your way to success - unless you're a skydiver.

If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain?

Rachel Henson stood facing him, immaculate in her uniform and ready for duty as always. She looked as though she had spent her whole life preparing for this very moment - she always did.

Still enmeshed from the knees down, Vayl flopped off the cabinet before we realized he needed a hand down, falling fast and hard like a penguin who hasn't bought the whole flightless scenario.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.

It was just that she had the need to tell him something honest, something honest and unhappy, because cheerful lies tonight were too depressing and too sharp, turning in on her like pins

China is very concerned about the Iranian nuclear issue.

and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.