If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." "I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly. "Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.

People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

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