One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Information is power. --Humfrey

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Obviously it could be, because it was.

Looking back and wondering if it could have worked eventually hurts more than trying and failing.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

The art of making much show with little substance.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.