The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.