"I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy."

"I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself."

"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap."

"I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then."

"It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away."

"It is a subtle truth that the river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact."