Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you learn not to watch bad tennis; it messes up your game. Art's the same way.

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.