Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.

Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.

I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

Business is no more about making money than the human body is about making blood. Yes you need to make the stuff, but only to serve your higher aims.

You don't just read a book to find adventure. You read a book to find yourself.

Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.

I'm a rap comedian the same way Bill Cosby is a jazz comedian, Cosby's laid back. I'm like, bang, bang bang, right into it.

Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.

Adherence to men, is often disloyalty to principles.

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

There is a hunger in every human being for approval.

There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.

The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.