Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

It takes great courage to open one's heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world.

There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.

Be careful of what you say and do in life, you never know who's watching.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.