Guys don't get romantically involved." "What do they get?" "Invold, period.

I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.

I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair

I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three worlds they will be entering when they pick up one of my books.

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

Pretty much everything about you gets me hot.

The concept of psychic energy is easy for most people to imagine. After all, it's just one step beyond intuition - and almost everyone is comfortable with the idea of intuition.

I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?

Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either.

I think I'm going to cry, this is crazy." "No, you're just processing. Go ahead and cry." "I thought men got nervous around crying females." "I'm a Marine, remember? We're trained to handle anything.

A lady with a past has nothing to lose. But a woman with a future can't be too careful.

When you snatch happiness in little bits, fits and starts, and lose it, like me, you become coarse, little by little, you become hateful.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Hey, does my stupidity give you the right to bruise a tender heart?" "Yeah, yeah. I'm bruising a heart made of Play-Doh.

If we don’t risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

Our lives are not just measured in years. They are measured in the lives we touch around us.

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they are filled with the devil.