My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.

A dog could see your heart in your eyes, Budress told him, and dogs were drawn to our hearts.

She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.

Everyone knows dogs. Most people love dogs. I think most American families probably have a dog, but I don't think people really realize or understand just how wonderful and special dogs are.

Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

People want you to be ordinary.

My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.

Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.