I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.

I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

People don't change just because you know more about them.

Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.