After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first" Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance

Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.

You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.