You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

I am not a morning person.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

The best lies are always at least partially true.

You're never going to be ready"..."Don't you see that? You have to forget about ready. If you don't, you're always going to run away

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.

Planned Parenthood should absolutely be defunded. I mean if you look at what's going on with that, it's terrible. And many other things should be defunded and many things should be cut.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.