Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.

Don't write to sell, write to tell.

It’s not great when your husband thinks the only guy who can talk to you, is some other guy.

Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future.

If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.

Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.

Some people like milk, but I would never drink anything you have to stroke out of an animal.

My view on feng shui: don’t put your bed in front of the door because you won’t get in.

Terry loved candlelight dinners and red wine. It was a nice contrast from work.And killing people.

He was a strange mix of Heinrich Himmler and Barney the Dinosaur.

You have really nice teeth, ” Terry said and thought they could be excellent for his collection of human body parts.

Everything we do and think has consequences and everything is connected by this web and has a meaning. When we touch the web on one side of the world, it ripples through it to the other - and so on.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder' As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor.

The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.

Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

I link dar's many a slaveholder'll git to Heaven. Dey don't know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.

I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot.

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

The you in you isn't the you you think is in you.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.