I'm all for crossovers if they benefit the individual books.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.

You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

When in doubt, blow something up.

When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it.

The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.