I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.

Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after a signing for some beers. They're invariably bright!

If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much, if not more, for international harmony.

If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

All men of honor are alone.

Your true potential is unlimited, and you can certainly achieve much more than human intelligence can comprehend.

It is the touch of a lover's arms that I so desperately crave, not the memories of a love no longer mine.

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.

In order to change a color it is enough to change the color of its background.

One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.

Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.

The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor.