Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

Be intentionally infectious. Make your brand contagiously buzz worthy.

Skijoring is just something that people want to see, it's like Ben Hur on snow, the modern way. I love the speed, the adrenalin rush is something special. It's just unique.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.

To a valet no man is a hero.

I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.

I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose you lose to gain.