Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

Friends are family you choose.

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Match your talent with integrity, or your talent might take you places where you lose control, and fall from grace.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

If I had a kid, and I had a choice between teaching somebody how to avoid trouble, or teaching them how to get out of it, I'd teach them how to get out of it.

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.

If you can intuit well, you're essentially meeting the future faster.

Relax Beatrice, I've driven a car before.' MARCUS 'I've done a lot of things before, but that doesn't mean I'm any good at them!' TRIS