I learned as a child, to tell a truly entertaining story requires a bit of fabrication.

Very little bothers me more than seeing or hearing something so astoundingly beautiful that I am unable to put it into words.

Freemasonry is the intellectual journey of self

Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels.

It’s incumbent that we hold these events to energize people’s spirits and ignite their passions and engage them in the work that still needs to be done. The civil rights movement did not end with...

Hard-work is the cure for everything except disease

Forgive people with cheer once, forgive them thereafter with pity.

Whatever honor there is in giving up, I want no part of.

Every new horizon begins with a branch of education

Be not afraid of flying. Angels live in the clouds and the devil on the earth.

Laughter is a good disease. If only it spread as quickly.

Fun is a medicore word.

A quality novel is never completed on a full nights sleep.

Life is like the ocean currents; if you know not how to navigate, you’re as good as lost.

We worry about entire nations while our neighbor is starving

So sad is a man who has never learned to forgive

You can always determine the decline of the market by the rise in graffiti.

Most people don’t realize their neighbors are as nosy as they are.

Allow yourself to be taught

My ambition is the immediate page of the book I am currently working on. The next word to follow the last. A fresh new idea.

Minimum wage is either a complaint or a reason to work that much harder. It has no medium.

Notice the painful lashes upon your shoulders, done so solely by the crop attached to your belt.

It is that eternal struggle of good versus evil, that is so engaging to the mind of man and woman alike.

There is no age limit for romance.

I believe God is the Geometry of life

I believe that divine minds are all concious of a universal truth that begins and ends with geometry

Hope is the embers still smoldering beneath ashes when the fire appears to have burned out.

When I die I want to be buried with a notebook and two sharpened pencils, because a computer will someday become outdated, but pencil and paper will be used forever.

For a writer to sit before a blank page, as a painter before a white canvass or general before a bloodless field; before the first scribble of creation, is a moment like no other. The...

Writing is not a craft for the timid.

Stars are wonderful guides. Both the real and the imaginary.

I have never been wholly comfortable in social settings, so I never say much. Yet, very good with people is how I have often been described. Appearance and courteous gesture is remembered far longer than...

The words bloom like Spring flowers and pullulate as falling leaves in Autumn. Fresh invigorate swirls of the pen delight the pages with imagery, symbolism, theater, and emotion that pulsates with the passion of an...

Tragedy, sadness, loneliness and despair taught me that life is really a beautiful thing; if it wasn’t I wouldn’t be able to recognize that anything was wrong

Psychological trauma leaves its effects in a multiplicity of observances; in my case it is inebriation.

God is whatever you personally believe God to be

Both good and bad days should end with productivity. Your mood or affairs should never influence your work

Political disputes should be decided with two pairs of boxing gloves and a ring.

If all humans were blind they’d find racism in pitch.

For most darkness is when dreams are made; but for the wise so to when there is light.

Violence should have no place in life but within the pages of an engaging novel.

What of this world but joys and sorrows.

Birthday is a salty word if you’re not a fan of cake and ice cream.

I do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks. I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes. I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to...

Poor neighborhoods all look the same: run-down, graffiti covered, garbage strewn, crime-riddled etc. Affluent ones all look the same as well: clean, crime-free, big homes, expensive cars, manicured lawns. Why the hell then doesn’t everyone...

I thought she did a great job. It’s too bad that we didn’t hang onto the ball in that (fifth) inning. … In order to be competitive against teams like State College, we have to...

You can always save face with a good hearty laugh.

Equality only exists in the food bowl of a dog.

Men of superior creative aptitude are most dependent on their women.

I have no consternation; I know what to expect and I know that I can out last the appetency. However long it takes, under unholy extremes I must not fold. A consummation will be accomplished....