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

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.

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.

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.

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

Bruises fade. Death is permanent.

as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive

I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.

It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

If a man knows what he wants, then he is in a position to decide that he will get it. This is faith. The determined decision of a man with desire.

I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.