"When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure."

“I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.”

Source : "Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Monogamous with Zak Orth". Interview with Caitlin Colford, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2010.

“Shared world has done some world building and brings (in the case of FR and SW) a big audience. With your own work, you're more creatively free. In a way, the shared world stuff has a high floor but a ceiling.”

“Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!”

“Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.”

“Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.”

“The easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened.”

“When a player gets to 30, so does his body”

“Since I was a little kid, I was against fur. I never wore fur in my life.”

Source : "Clooney ex Elisabetta Canalis gets naked for PETA" by Piya Sinha-Roy, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.