As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

What are we to do when we seem to grow out of God? Or at least the understanding of God that we grew up with?

To see the magic of life look through the wondrous eyes of a child.

The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.

Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

If you want to protect yourself as an actor, always work with good people

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.