Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

You are an abomination before God. Jesus loves you too, I said smiling.

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

I am not a morning person.

Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.

When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.