Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters interesting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.

To love as Christ loves is to let our love be a practical and not a sentimental thing.

When you believe in what you’re doing, that’s the first thing. And you have to be resilient, because people are going to try to knock you down.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

If I don't have a schedule in front of me, I do enjoy sleeping. It's important for your body!