There are a lot of reasons to doubt things.

Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day.

I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

The rules are very strict.

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.

You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.

When we fight with the truth and stand in it to the end, then God Himself comes and confirms His Word, His righteousness and His truth

Knowledge makes you strong, wisdom makes you powerful, and love makes you invincible.

I have jeans with holes in them and I have nice jeans. I have casual and I have dressy jeans. I've got all kinds.

I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?

I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.

The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.

I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.