Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.

The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose.

In times of distress strengthen your heart.

War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep.

Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.

We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.

But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

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!

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.

I always try to take projects I'm genuinely interested and passionate about versus just trying to take projects for the money.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.