There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.

Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.

It’s your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn’t. Home is death.

I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.

Emma, okay, enough with the singing. Mommy's getting a three-pill headache.

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If you don’t know your maker, chances are that you will never know yourself. If you don’t know yourself, you will bury your meals and complain of poverty!

We survive, in the confusionof a life reborn beyond reason.

A woman who's self confident doesn't need to compete with other females. She knows her worth and lives a purpose filled life.

Words gain credibility by deed.

Abba Dorotheos said: No matter what kind of sorrow comes to you, don't blame anyone but yourself, and say, "This has happened because of my sins."

I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.

I enjoy the attention. I like the cameras. In a way, they make me play better.

The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.