I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.

I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.

I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice, I wanna be elected.

We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.

But I've become completely obsessed with taking photos on my iPhone. I have like 400 apps.

I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.

I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.