Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

Playing well with others isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Apathy is grossly undervalued and never there for me when I need it.

No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.

Anyone who's had a shower and hasn't ingested illegal narcotics within a couple of days stands out on a bench in the courthouse.

Thrilled with the knowledge that she loved me, it took me a moment to realize that she was angry. I found her tantrum irresistible." #Ren

Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

I hope somebody cares because I sure don't. I sure don't. Not anymore. I'm ashamed to go around my family. I'm too embarrassed to confide in my friends. Outside of work I don't have a life.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

I didn't choose to be the guy who talks about the mundane - it's just who I am and it's what kind of works for me.

Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.