The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

I am the dragon, and you call me insane.

Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.