Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Even if you lack the smarts, be a good person.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Not all people who are smart, are wise, yet all who are wise are indeed smart.

What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.