The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life . . . and someone who realizes that it can’t possibly be enough.

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

Every limitation must be overcome to realised the goal.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

Ay sir to be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.

Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

Childhood friendship is the most beautiful memory that can't ever be replaced.