My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.

People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.