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.

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 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!

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.

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

It's our moral obligation, as well as, I believe, it is the government's obligation to take care of its people.

Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum.

In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.