There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.

I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

Generous leaders have faith in others to succeed. In turn, they receive tenfold loyalty, commitment, and a positive outcome.

The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion - Shavasti

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

He always felt embarrassed opening gifts in front of others, having to act out delight or surprise. He liked to peel off the paper slowly and consider the contents.

Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.

This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat.

Don't ever admit that the world has not given you an opportunity

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.