“The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. (p 57)”

“I know they are naught things, but I devour novels.” (p. 57).”

“People try to hide behind God to fool others in the world, but they fail to realize that the world is not big enough to hide behind to try and fool God”

“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.”

“Hard words are for fools and cowards.”

“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most writers spend their lives writing about unexpected malice in the supposedly virtuous, and unexpected virtue in the supposedly sinful. ”