I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up through Shakespeare and Milton, the most important themes to tackle are those of the mythopoeic domain, tales of the body and mind seen through a temperament and a cosmos divorced from current reality so what is said can be more clear.
You gotta choose what battles you can win.
The relations between Russia and Turkey entered into a really positive stage. I am sure that steps we both take will widen our cooperation.
Leo: I'm almost out of gas! Woah, that came out wrong. I meant the burning kind!