As an author, I breathe life into each and every character within the stories that I write. But it is the reader who gives them their souls.

Let it go and live in the moment with joy.

It was not a comfortable Throne, this seat made of stone. But power was not supposed to be comfortable.

I believe we were right for each other, but not in that moment, which perhaps hindered any possibility of a future.

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

Recently we received an invitation that proved just that.

There comes a day when people begin to say, 'Why doesn't that old duffer retire?' I want to get out while they're still saying Astaire is a hell of a dancer.

I was pretty subdued [as a kid ] because I didn't want to get spanked, and I didn't want to go to Hell.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.

Making you a pioneer only means one thing. You were around at the time.