being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.

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.

When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

I'll be an artist one day because my creator's masterpiece leaves me perplexed.

Ethnic minorities were 10 times more likely than whites to eat at a table where they were the only representative of their race.

You're not always able to choose.

I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.

Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

I wasn't a keen taker of speed because I didn't like the comedown from it.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.