Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

I am afraid of darkness... even though it knows me it loves me.

When fate hands you a lemon make lemonade.

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

Some people wouldn't say I coached in the National Football League. I coached with the Raiders, right?

You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.

One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.

Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others.