One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

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

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

Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.

We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.

Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.