With publicity comes humiliation.

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

The older a woman gets, the more invisible you become.

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to me.

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn’t know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.

That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down.

Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.

I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.

Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.

God owes me nothing. He doesn't have to work for anything good in my life. That is only for those who are called according to His purpose.

History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.