I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a book for the intellectual or the mental part of it, but, the first time, I just like to reach out and grab you, pull you in.

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.