...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across