You've got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many TV shows. It fulfills me. There are two things about it I like: It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.