Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid.

Believe in yourself and start achieving your dream. It waits for you on the other side of the publish button.

Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need.

You have to put yourself out there as a writer, you can’t play it safe.

Open your soul and put it out there and dare the world to read it, ready to have them stomp on you and laugh, but ready to do it again the next day.

The best part of being a writer is you get to tell people you’re a writer. That’s still considered cool.

Who do I think would appreciate my book?I’m surprised anybody does. Oops, did I say that out loud?

I wasn’t a class clown, because nuns have no sense of humor. They have rulers.

It’s amazing how my mind opens up right when I have to run on the treadmill. I’ve finished three chapters rather than run a mile.

I usually end have one outrageous minor character. He or she says the stuff I wish I had said in real life. Readers will love that character.

Writers need to be open to trying new things. My first bestseller was a cookbook, and from that experience I learned things about marketing a book that benefitted me greatly.

I have learned one lesson in all this and I will share it knowing it will do no one any good. The lesson is this: "There are none more complicit in one's undoing than one's own heart".

I jog up to the Hollywood sign every weekend. It's fun and what a view!

You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.

I'm going bald. I'm having a major problem with it.

A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a both of ink.

Everything amounts to nothing if you don't love someone or something.

I love brunch because it's breakfast and lunch why not.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

My mom loved the book [My beloved world] and she said to me, 'I never knew you had done so much.'

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.