God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

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.

I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.