If it's broken, it can be fixed.

I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.

Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.

There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

It’s your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn’t. Home is death.

I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.

Emma, okay, enough with the singing. Mommy's getting a three-pill headache.

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Don’t wait for people to locate you. Rather, reach out to people and help to bring them to Christ

Nothing exists except through human consciousness

Here, where we had done the most of our growing up, the old family home had been a fortress against the world. This is something that the children of immigrants all know.

The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.

What, do they run already? Then I die happy.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

Yeah, I'm insensitive. So is life. DEAL with it.

Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'