When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.

You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

You know what the difference between a cardiac surgeon and God is? God doesn't think he's a cardiac surgeon.

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.