Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

Poetry gives the greatest pleasure.

Miracles don't just happen on their own you know, you got to make them happen.

‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

What was said about him, what the females needed to believe about him, was just oral masturbation for mouths that needed to be otherwise occupied.

In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

What is done cannot be now amended.

If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments