Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.

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

I made the rules I figured I could be the one to break them. I thought I would write about xenophobia, a hatred of foreigners. After I stated writing the story there was not a foreigner to be had. I did not want to just stick one in there so I could get a title out of it since it seemed like cheating. I never figured out how I could get out of this dilemma so I just called it X and weaved X traits into the story.

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.

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