“To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.”

I strive for nothing if not consistency

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions “moral” after a fashion.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.

Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.

A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.

Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

That was how Ren turned my boring life into an illusion, and that was too much for no matter how hard i tried, it seemed I could never catch him.

I couldn’t think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down

So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.

In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.