You need some coffee, don't you?" "Yes, I've only had a gallon.

The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.