Everyone should say what they wanted. It saved time.

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

I was unprepared for the firsthand experience of mindfulness. The way that awareness … revealed a sense of well-being right there in the heat of my emotions.

A secret is a truth, hiding behind a mouth.

In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.

Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.

My vision is to make touch positive social value in our culture.

An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.

I read to see myself in other people's lives.