If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.

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.

You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.

Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

The creature born is the creature dying.