Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.

Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins

Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!

When mankind pushes, natures sometimes pushes back

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

The truth is often one's best shield.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

The strong were always eating the weak.

Rejoice and thank God in the midst of your storms. For those people who have been through hell and back but continue to have smiles on their faces, they are the examples of God’s grace and mercy

All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

My kids are always awake. It's they're taking shifts. 'Alright, I'll annoy 'em from midnight to . Who wants to ?'

To suffer one's confusion is the first step in healing.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.