And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

The Army was my bread and butter.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time.

Hmmm... that's interesting.""What?""There seems to be a gentleman walking towards us with a shotgun.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

If you don't like what you see, stop looking.

I think honesty is a big part. Because when you sing live, you want the audience to believe you.

Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a person: Jesus in our midst.

You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.

In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

Enough of anything is plenty, but plenty to some people is never enough.

The fundamentals of the game are the same wherever you go: pass, dribble, shoot, defend, rebound, screen, play hard and together