Many things are possible. Few things are certain.

...Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written about places I've never seen - but it does help.

I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.

I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly

I do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don't always, but I try. Then I clean up in the rewrites.

People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.

You count snouts,” Straha said. “Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.

People were as they were, not not as he wished them to be.

To be a great success, persistently plan and have a prospective and purpose.

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

A Seer dreams of all kinds of endings, but never a happy one for herself.

I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

Don't let weeds grow around your dreams.

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

I'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)

In Sadhana there will be internal talk with God. You will give up all attachments and at­tach only to God.