Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

I am far more fearful of the police than I am of North Korea.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

Tell troth and shame the devil.

My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.

Room service is great if you want to pay $500 for a club sandwich.

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

You're not gonna give somebody more money if they don't ask for it.

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

One by one, like leaves from a tree, / All my faiths have forsaken me.