Success can be defined in many ways but failure in only one ... quitting!

To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat.

There's something to be said about drinking a carafe of wine by yourself ... I just can't remember at the moment what it is! (said after drinking a carafe of wine by himself)

That eveningWhen I was all aloneIn our bedroomTo give me companyYour voice came along

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it.

If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

It was absolutely critical to renew the Bush tax cuts. Letting them expire would result in a massive tax increase that would retard economic growth.

Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it.

Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.