I never want to be winking at the audience and saying, "This character is really a nice guy."

You can fall into a trap, worrying too much about what the audience might think, rather than going from the inside out.

I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.

ALL that man has touched, will be used... For both Good and evil. Such is the way of the world.

Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.

I do weight training and follow strict diet. It is very important to look a certain way. I don't think being extra skinny and thin is desirable, but you have to be fit.

As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever.

My parents professed to believe in God, but I rarely heard his name mentioned unattached to 'damn' or 'sakes' or 'willing.

Major organizational changes create uncertainty.

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.