The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.

If you asked me one day, I might say, "Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious." If you asked me another day, I'd just say flat out, "No."

I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.