True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

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.

The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.

Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.

Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano

Necessity, thou mother of the world!

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.

I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic.