James Carlos Blake

Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.

History is a record of human nature in action.

Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.

The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.

One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance 'do the right thing.' Well, as many have discovered, you don't really know what you'll do in the dark till the lights go out.

Aspiring novelists should be taught that the old adage, __rite about what you know,_ isn__ limited to what you have personally experienced. Vicarious experience is also a great part of what you know. Read a lot of history and it becomes part of your store of knowledge, part of what you__e prepared to write about. The same goes for stories and memories that other people share with you.