God was in the details.

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

My soul will always find its way to yours because home is where the heart is.

I wonder what will happen if i put a hand cream on my feet, will they get confused and start clapping?

People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to l

Take your million smiles through billion miles

Fit yourself where you are before you fix yourself where you can be!

As a younger person you can come in through many, many gateways. It's like some huge Mandela. You can enter into this and get refreshed.

Unless you are wealthy, you cannot afford to act or direct one play and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and it might be just as amazing as this one.

Once I've designed something, I immediately move on to the next thing.