There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love those writers, so I am happy to be considered a crime writer. That's what I consider myself.

The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

I saw this wino, he was eating grapes. I was like, "Dude, you have to wait".

A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.