"Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going."

“The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.”

“I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised.”

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”

“Without U.S. troops, Afghanistan, like Iraq, could descend into chaos.”

“Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flow– priests, kings, hierophants, mystics, scientists & shopkeepers all brand the sorcerer enemy for threatening the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their illusory web.”

Source : Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.23, Autonomedia

“I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.”

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across”

“The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.”

Source : Cesare Beccaria (marchese di) (1963). “On crimes and punishments”, Bobbs-Merrill Company