If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.