What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.

True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

Hope is a song in a weary throat.

One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.

Mocking precedes learning the hard way.

Death is not the end of the road—it is merely a gateway to eternal life beyond the grave.

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

James Cameron thinks we can do anything. He'll let you try anything. There are very few geniuses in the world, let alone in our business, and he's certainly one of them.

He that has done nothing has known nothing.