My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

With women the best aphrodisiac is words.

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.