If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?

Levana's face was fiercely beautiful. Breathtaking in her viciousness.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.

I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

I don't know where I'm going, and I don't care where I'm going. As long as I can just do it.