I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it’s more important to learn to work with what you’ve got, under the circumstances you’ve been given, than wishing for different ones.

Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility.

When people inexplicably dissapeared into thin air, it was usually because they had a new zip code. Something like 666

Know thine opportunity.

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

God isn't waiting on our memo. He is waiting on us to focus enough on Him that we get His memo.

Some people only know how to copy others and some people are just subconsciously over influenced by what they hear rather than having a sound of their own.

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.