A cliffhanger is when ...

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

Three words for a writer: Make me care.

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

It’s a great day to write a best-seller.

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

I wear the writer pants in the family.

Do you remember the time, Mike, ” Jeremy laughed, “that you put a banana down your pants and walked up to the Palma-nator. It looked like you had one hell of a hard-on.

Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.

The best kind of day is a writing day

Willingness to learn is important, willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.

Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.

I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.

Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.

They say no one knows if we all see red the same way. Except traffic cops.

Joe Wambaugh's a friend. I know him only casually, but I like him a lot. I think he likes my books.

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.

Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.