My aunts still try to fatten me up.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.

All the women in my family were superb cooks.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

People can burn down books... but not knowledge.

I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler. -Frodo Baggins

Travel is the best school

Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate.

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

Breath belongs to Mehay. Ecl has no use for it.

Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control.

When it [NAFTA] was sold, we were supposed to get two or three times more exports to Canada or Mexico than they exported to us. It's been the exact opposite.

I want to live till I die. No more, no less.

Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.