Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Today I AM grateful for wealth. There are many seeds planted inside me that are growing and pouring endless financial prosperity onto my life.

By giving children lots of affection you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.

Better the friend we can see than the money we cannot.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

How do you think jail was?! I got face raped by a woman... and I think I may have liked it.

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.

Change, change,--we all covet change.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.