You only fail if you stop writing.RAY BRADBURY

Be positive. Believe that you will succeed. See it, go for it. No matter what the odds, most of the battle is inside your own head. -- Bob Mayer

Be daring. Better to fail spectacularly then stay safe and achieve meh. -- Anonymous

Writing a full length novel is very much like driving a car with snakes in your pants—you just never know what’s going to happen. -- James Scott Bell

If something went wrong, he’d pay the price. He couldn’t allow any innocent people to be hurt this time. From HEAR NO EVIL

We’re your friends. Our job is to tease you mercilessly about your foibles, rag you about your upright, honorable nature, and point out to you when you’re being a complete dolt.

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.(on being 36 yrs old)

People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.

For love is immortality.

I don't believe in faeries!

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.