Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

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.

But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.

Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.

We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things.

The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.

For people to come to you and say, 'Would you like to be a part of our show?' after years of 'Please tell me I'm good enough'... I can't tell you how wonderful it feels.

I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love animals and then eat them.