Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

To be wise, know yourself.

Went in at the one ear and out at the other.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power.

If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.

Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

Some people just don't like to be their self. I'm always looking, analyzing myself.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

May God fill this beautiful land of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador with his peace and love.