any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.

Success is like the most beautiful woman:pursued by many, loved by all, feared by few, courted by the patient and hardworking, and won over by good judgment.

And just as I thought that my happy ending was beginning, it had to end so soon even though it hadn't started yet.

I'm fascinated by idiots... Here's looking at you, kid!

A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.

I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

What is remembered is what becomes reality.

People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.

Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.