I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.

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.

Mercy is weakness. Offer it to your enemies and you might as well fall upon your own sword.

Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven states to find it.

It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.

Only one music comes out of me.

Your so bitter, like kitty litter.

What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth are never separable in Catholic pastoral life.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

The left don't get what they want without the government forcing people to do it is the bottom line.

Through humble prayer, diligent preparation, and faithful service, we can succeed in our sacred callings.