So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.

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.

No other thing or no other person is going to make me happy in life, I just have to do that myself.

Reality is a life sentence.

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

My work is not about 'form follows function, ' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

You get America out of Iraq, you get Israel out of Palestine.

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.

God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.