I write novels and other things.

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

Decadence is wonderful.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.

Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it is – you deal with it.

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

My hope is Donald Trump makes things better. And if he does, we'll all benefit from it.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

People think about what they don't want and attract more of the same.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.