I've always found ideas everywhere, but my favorite place is Nordstrom, because of their liberal return policies for those ideas that don't work out.

Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.

Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand.

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

Bruises fade. Death is permanent.

The Spirit of God takes the Word of God and makes the child of God.

She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.

A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.

If God is all powerful, and Jesus is the son of God, why did He make His birthday fall on Christmas?

It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.

The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.

"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.