The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

What is the scent of water?""Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

We all have the Wisdom to understand that sooner or later Life will end, but we don’t have the Willpower to Live before we die.

Savage and unpredictable, a woman, like the sea, takes what she wants and spits the remains back into the boiling cauldron of humanity ...

Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts.

People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.

Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single dolphin made me want to burn his eyebrows off.

What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

Any organisation has a future, provided it is properly led and it sticks to the objective of that organisation.