I am the sum of my past experience.Some people have got a lot to answer for.

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

Giving up drinking for life is easy.I've done it loads of times.

Laugh and the world laughs with you.Fart and you're on your own.

You only get one life.Too bad you already made a mess of it.

If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast.

If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times.

Failure is something you experience on your way to success - unless you're a skydiver.

If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain?

Rachel Henson stood facing him, immaculate in her uniform and ready for duty as always. She looked as though she had spent her whole life preparing for this very moment - she always did.

Hawke, " he said. "That's the word you need to be saying.

Perfection is death, ' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?

To pray is to plead.

Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience.

I'm a competitor. And I don't want to say, hey, just because this person is a woman or this person is a minority, that they're not going to get the white male vote.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.

Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.

When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.