I have a handful of keywords that I try to live by. One of them is: Joy.Everyone needs more joy in their lives. Maybe that means changing job to one you truly like. Maybe that means moving to another country to start a new adventure. Maybe it means forging ties with people who make you truly happy. Maybe it means creating joy in others.For me, one of the many things that brings me joy is writing. I am blessed, and very thankful, that I get to do this for a living.

We read to escape, to embrace, to challenge, and to understand. Reading enages our intellect, but also our empathy, and we are all the better for it.

Science fiction tells us truths that we mightn't listen to any other way.

Sometimes all the players get a bad hand. You just have to be determined enough to see the game through.

Behind the sternness of his voice there was a shackled anger, and beneath that shackled anger there was a buried pain.

But then the war didn't always harden you on the outside. The desert did that. The war crisped you up within.

She might've had the skill to get them out of the Hold, but God knew how she'd fare across the desert of Altadas. And God wasn't telling.

Be idealistic about the future, be realistic about the present, and never forget the lessons of the past.

Fear is leaden. Courage is golden. Let go of the weight of the world, and you will fly.