It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

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

Poise and indifference so often look the same.

You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.

Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.