Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.
But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.
Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
Dive deep. Drown willingly
For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty?
How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?
He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story
I compete all over the world, so I travel two or three times a month and spend at least six months a year out of the country.
Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.
Two respondents described dreams which they had related to the procedure. Both described dreams of vomiting fetuses along with a sense of horror. . . In general it appears that the more direct the physical and visual involvement the more stress experienced.
Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts".