I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.

If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.