I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

To create something you want to sell, you first study and research the market, then you develop the product to the best of your ability.

My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.

She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one true love.

I know you're the only pistol champion we have, but I'd rather they no see enough of you to hit. You're also the only wife I have...""You're so sweet.'"...at the moment.

If ever a car was created by designers with dreams of grandeur, it had to be the 1958 Buick Limited: the heftiest, highest-priced and most opulent monster ever to hit the street in the '50s.

It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing.

I collect vintage cars, so you always find them in my books.

It’s just a party, right? What could possibly go wrong?

Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.

Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly.

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

I wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.

One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.

... non-use of rights does not destroy them.