Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

I always want to give the victim a voice.

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pine-Sol, urine, sweat, and dust.

Don't make a deal with the devil.

A beadlet dribbles down her cheek to wake a wet remembrance where the insincere took hold to empty forth her wounded heart.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be heading down the nightmare that it is today.

Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.

Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I've always wanted to measure myself against the best.

Still all the tulkus being born are men.

For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard.