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.

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.

Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.

Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?

There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

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

You never know which people will affect your life.