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

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.

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.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

The calmest part of the storm is not in its eye, but in your own soul.

Relationships are nine parts intuition, one part madness.

I wanted to bathe in plum juice, rediscover my body and adorn it in kiwi circles.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

Dimitri was on a first name basis with one of the most badass guardians around. Of course, Dimitri was pretty badass himself, so I shouldn’t have been surprised.

An interesting opportunity is actually not just thinking about building organs for patients, but actually building little tiny organs that you could do drug screening on.

Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.