Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

To create something you want to sell, you first study and research the market, then you develop the product to the best of your ability.

I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.

My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.

She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one true love.

I know you're the only pistol champion we have, but I'd rather they no see enough of you to hit. You're also the only wife I have...""You're so sweet.'"...at the moment.

If ever a car was created by designers with dreams of grandeur, it had to be the 1958 Buick Limited: the heftiest, highest-priced and most opulent monster ever to hit the street in the '50s.

It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing.

I collect vintage cars, so you always find them in my books.

Don't give up when you still have something to give. Because nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying,

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Judgments border on figurative cliffs that my pinky finger nudges to the floor of the infinite.

All hell broke loose.

To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.

Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been.

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

This is for fighting, this is for fun.

We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more 'constructive.