I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.

I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.

Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.

There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

It’s your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn’t. Home is death.

Emma, okay, enough with the singing. Mommy's getting a three-pill headache.

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Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.

When you have cat stealers over for tea, you clean the house, buy bagels and cream cheese, and try to figure out how to trap your guests in a lie.

This is the moment behind which I could forget every other moment that has passed.

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

Kindness suits you." "Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you.

Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.

Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.

From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.