I’m sorry that I don’t like your tattoos.”I walked away. I walked back to him. “I mean that I don’t like tattoos, not just your tattoos. I like your skin, though.”I walked away.

Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

New York is full of creative people, not only in fashion.

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.