[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

Im quite competitive. Not with other models but with myself. I have to win.

Any religion is a perspective upon existence.

Hey Steve, no offense, but if you couldn't shoot, there would be no reason for you to be alive.

My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches.

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Dont blame others for your own inadequacies.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.

Use design as a framework to bring order out of chaos.

I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's really good, then it's irrational... but it's not crazy.