"I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life."

“Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.”

“Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.”

“Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.”

“We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics.”

Source : "DeLay decries "politics of personal destruction". Tom DeLay's letter to the constituents, www.chron.com. October 28, 2005.

“Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.”

“I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.”

“I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.”

“I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.”

Source : Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder (2001). “Sons of Entropy”, p.160, Simon and Schuster