For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

I am not a morning person.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

The best lies are always at least partially true.

Go and venture! You should not give up after failures because this gift does not belong only to you

I said, "It really didn't feel like a choice. Where else is there to go?

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars.

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.