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.

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.

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.

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

He (Mickey Mantle) has it in his body to be great.

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.

The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-Being

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.

I'm always going to be under a microscope, and I haven't always handled it well.

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

Work hard on your style, not on your watermarks.