Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

The worst situations in the world always start with the words, 'trust me.'

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people than to others. Have you considered why you quest for this tale now?

Write. Publish. Repeat.

[Discipline i]t’s the ability to overcome the urge to grab the bright and shiny and interesting to finish what you’ve started.

Men didn't have any idea about regretbefore God felt so once after created us.

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

Material Girl is about having your own personal style, and my personal style reflects the brand's aesthetic.

You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.

Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!

I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.

A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.