Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?

I don't sign contracts for my books.

Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.

Information is the hardest currency.

Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.