Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.

There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.