Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

I always want to give the victim a voice.

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pine-Sol, urine, sweat, and dust.

It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.

I jumped up and down and swore violently in seventeen languages.

Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.

She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.

People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.

A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.

There are no random acts.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.