I'm full of admiration for the Queen. She's done a fantastic job. She has had an awful lot of blocks along the road and has overcome them all. I'm anything but an antimonarchist.

I have never in any way found the idea of celebrity appealing. Anonymity is much more appealing.

To my fellow authors heed these words with much importance, " It is redundant for a true writer to sell their soul for literary fame, since the soul is a writer's inner voice...

Walking is man's best medicine.

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

There are no vacant lots in nature.

Life is not fair and people are not equal.

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

It was like I’d stepped out into an afterlife. Only there were no angels.

I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.

I've always enjoyed watching makeup artists - but I'd like to go to the extreme and do monster makeup in movies.

The way the world is right now, we need more love.