You know, when you're right, that's all you get to be.

I've been looking for you a long time, I just didn't know it. But now I do.

The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely accessible and readable.

If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragraph, they'll go, "Tell me more." And then when you start to write it, they continue to want to read more. And if you don't, it won't work.

YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something to explode.

What happened to your tan?"--Fang "It was dirt." --Max

I still felt like I might hurl, and I thought about how awful that would be in midair.