figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

Pity is something only weakness wants.

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

You know I'm not a man with whom you can have inconsequential conversations. I cannot split myself into two, one your friend and the other the king's servant.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

I think I like ‘mundane’ better than ‘bloodsucker,’” Simon muttered. “With Jace, you don’t really get to choose your insulting nickname.” -Simon and Clary, pg.234-

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.

[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.

Raja yoga is the mental practice and incorporates meditation, pranayama, and mudra. What are the benefits of having a raja yoga practice? The benefit is spirituality.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.

George W. Bush has deliberately polarized and divided America for political purposes, politicizing the most basic questions of war and peace for partisan advantage.

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.