I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this world, and not many writers can say that.

A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit growth is going to have to lie in making his brand more valuable to the retailer, through its being more valuable to the consumer. And that means his brand must be unique, it must have no adequate direct substitutes - because it is in this, after all, that value lies.

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.