You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

Friends are family you choose.

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve.

Your world is your story with tragedies and triumphs

We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories.

The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.

I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat.

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.