But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.

Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

If your feet are firmly planted on the grount you'll never be able to dance.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

Maybe the only good thing about death is that you never have to relive it. You never have to remember the pain.

Consider yourself warned, Frankie. Something about these mountains convinces previously sane women to give up Starbucks for saddle sores.

Gifford Ulrich didn’t know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn’t sleep in alleys.

Sometimes geniuses create nothing new, they organize already existing material into something completely useful in other ways

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

Go and do, don't sit and stew.

The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.