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.

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

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

Pretty much everything about you gets me hot.

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

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.

Your blessings lay beyond your fear.

Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

I'm certainly not a f**king fashion consultant. Don't call me if you want to know how to dress. I just rap. That's all I really know how to do.

When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about

No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.

It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.