"Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing."

“The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.”

“The only person who can fix education is the student.”

“The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.”

Source : Speech on Christmas in 1793. Quoted in "Who said Gaddafi had to go?" by Hugh Roberts, London Review of Books, Volume 33 No. 22, pp. 8-18, November 17, 2011.

“People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.”

“Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.”

Source : "100 Ways to Develop Your Mind: The Psychology of the Mind" by Steven Aitchison, (p. 74), 2009.

“I hadn't mentioned, but Ching Shih is a pretty villainous character. She is a real person, but she was a pirate commander, so she probably murdered a lot of people.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

“There are laws that only apply to people with HIV - we're becoming a viral underclass.”

“My goal on Earth is not to win a World Series or be the best baseball player who ever lived. That simply is not up to me because I have to wait and see if it is part of the Lord's plan. My goal is to follow the Lord and what he wants me to do so that someday I may enter His kingdom and receive everlasting life.”