If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay.

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

I can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that because you can't keep the audience in suspense if they're laughing. My attitude was, if the character has a sense of humor, then that makes the character more real because that's how we deal with the vicissitudes of life, we deal with it through humor.

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.