I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.

A closed mind is a dying mind.