A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story.

Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.