We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.

If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.