Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

If your feet are firmly planted on the grount you'll never be able to dance.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Yet in the maddening maze of things And tossed by storm and flood To one fixed trust my spirit clings I know that God is good!

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.

Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

I think it is disgraceful. I think it is completely disgusting that you've got a candidate for prime minster who seems to think that human beings are bargaining chips.

So burrow in. Snuggle deep. A winter idyll of simple splendor awaits.

It's always weird being the only white person in a group. It feels like everyone's looking to me for guidance.