"I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium."

"It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow."

"Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy."

"One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia."

"Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals."

"To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously."

"The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have."

"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice."