There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

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

Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace.

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.

I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another. And in my case, that's thousands of minutes I go through to get from one scene to the next and build it that way.

Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.