Growth is the goal, and that goal is never complete—art must be in constant change.

The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us

What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or is it only those who have the money who can enter the land of milk and honey?

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

The older you get, the less seriously you take criticism. I've gotten to a point now where I ignore it completely. It's just not relevant to me anymore.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.

Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.