I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it's all the same genre.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A writer always writes.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

I'm not an evangelical, because that means that I exclude the Catholics and main-liners, and Orthodox.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.

When you see someone draining you, your being naturally cuts it off. Yet many times you can be manipulated not to see.

Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.

Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force!

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.

But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.

Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.