Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.

Predisposition is not predestination.

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

There are many more ways to be attractive than to be beautiful.

Pork and chicken grease, the aromatics of choice for the Cajun.

A nation established under GodA nation that will only winif we stand together

That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

Damn! This flight attendant treating us like we won these first class tickets in a contest.

His words sliced through my heart, cutting it into little pathetic pieces.

This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad dash to have everything else.

You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament.