Humankind can't stand too much reality.
This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.
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
A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.
From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.
People and their religions don't affect me.
. . . the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.