That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.

If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.

Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.

I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

You are where you need to be. Just take a deep breath.

Leaders do what is uncomfortable but helpful. They run away from the comfort that doesn't produce any help for the world.

I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.

Most people do not pray they only beg.

In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.

The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.

A new medical study reports that men who eat ten pizzas a week are less likely to develop prostate problems at age 50. That's because they are usually dead by age 40.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.