Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.

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.

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

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

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.