"Say what you mean and mean what you say." Parker Kristhoffer

"That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." Christopher Hitchens

"Our civilization maintains an inverse proportion between production and the consequences of production."

"Developing Voice is like adolescence; you feel and sound awkward, think you know what you want, but are one overwhelmed, sloppy mess."

"Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art.  The water is free.  So drink." Stephen King

"No European who has tasted Savage Life can afterwards bear to live in our societies." Ben Franklin

"Native American went to war over physical transgressions; civilized man over ideals, beliefs, and morality." Derrick Jensen

"Just like many fish lures are designed to catch fisherman instead of fish, jargon catches writers' egos instead of audiences."

"We don't have bodies, we are bodies." Christopher Hitchens

"There's a hair difference between doing something In Spite of someone and Despite them.  That hair reflects if they consume you or not."

"Happiness does not seem to follow principles of mathematics and economics. The more you give away, the more you seem to have." Minesh Khashu

"You can tell how relativistic a culture is when personal offense is believed to be a valid argument."

"When boundaries are crossed, they become capacities. This is why apologies are politics rather than resolutions."

"Write to passion. Never write to market." Dean Wesley Smith