Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

Guns have no eyes, no friends. You never know if they'll protect your life or take it.

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

Where I come from these days, anybody who isn't seeing a therapist needs to.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.