With Crucible, any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect.

I'm a Star Wars fan from way back, and I love where the stories are going now.

Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker

The hoverlanes were murder.

Han?” “Yeah, sweetie.” “How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?” “I don’t know, sweetie. Mostly I shoot them.” “I’ll consider that.

In times of great chaos, people tend to follow a man with a plan.

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you.

The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God.

The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family...

This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.

Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace. The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.