The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the bills.

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves