Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.

Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand.

I've always found ideas everywhere, but my favorite place is Nordstrom, because of their liberal return policies for those ideas that don't work out.

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

Bruises fade. Death is permanent.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.

I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.

The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.