The worst choice you can make, is no choice at all.

Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!

No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama."-Inside Out and Back Again

Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

We earnestly recommend young men to read what has been to ourselves a truly delightful work.

Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house by themselves.

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.