Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. It’s packaged. We don’t live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.

The "paranormal" is what we call a phenomenon when examined through the narrow lens of what we consider "normal." You have to transcend the senses to understand them.

To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because they’re aware of it. I choose the second group.

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.

Do you know why the rich get richer? It’s is because they spend time with other rich people.

I know that feeling when your heart repels your body, not new for me.

NEVER STOP DREAMING. As DREAMS have the special powers to come true one day!

The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.

When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body.

I did not come to Washington to be loved, and I have not been disappointed.

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.

Money management is the only strategy to survive in this crazy, stupid and doped financial world market.