Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

If I waited until I felt creative, I would never have had a career. I long ago learned that a day that starts out badly, when nothing comes out on the page or comes out wrong, can suddenly turn into a good day a few hours later, when suddenly everything starts to click. The brain can be cajoled into being creative.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.