Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.

I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

. . . I could't get lost in the story, not the way you need to be, to become somebody else.

Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn’t landed yet

People who have experienced limited amount of success could be intimidated into thinking that it is not the will of God for them to increase

Thankfulness makes much of little.

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

Push yourself to keep improving or you'll stay as close to the bottom as you are to the top

It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to tell the story, and it's never going to be enough.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.