When in doubt, shut up.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

Success is not about age, it's about action.

The wealthiest Person on earth is one who is free from the love of Money

Finding your bliss can make survival seem like. And a strange thing happens along the way when you love what you are doing: you become good at it.

I love you," I whisper. "And I love you." He smiles, his lips seeking mine. "Always have. Always will.

I don't think of my opponents in the sense that I don't think of them consciously, I don't steer it one way or the other.

You sure you don’t want to kiss me good-bye, baby?

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

Social media is not an end in itself. It's just another tool to reach people.

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.