It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).

I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace.

Sometimes the guys who look the most normal are the biggest pervs of all.

Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.

Self importance is self pride.

People don’t really have much of a choice when the heart falls. I’m lucky enough that mine just so happened to fall for you, Misty.”—Dylan to Misty in, When the Heart Falls

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

Some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart.

When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.

We know that President Obama and his accomplishments, that there's a lot of unfinished business there.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society