God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.

grief is an illness I can't recover from.

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.

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

You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.

I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.