God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.

My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until midnight I was drunk out of my mind. So she says there was this period of about three hours when she could talk to me like a rational human being.

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

Make-up covers a multitude of sins.

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.