If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

I am not a morning person.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

The best lies are always at least partially true.

I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

Beavers give a dam

I cared not a whit whether Time were “a form of thought, ” or an aspect of reality, or (this was later) compoundable with Space. What I wanted to know was: How it got mixed?

If you fire people, you fire customers.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few listens.

At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

Vision with action can change the world.

I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.

an imitator is always a poor example.