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

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.

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

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.

That somehow, this insufferable girl would become the one person I am forever, hopelessly, madly drawn to against my will and possibly even my better judgment.

Even if everybody says it’s impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying

Oh, my father, such a difficult man.His world turned on his axis.From "The Father Tamer" in BREATHE IN

4 levels of Education

Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

You have to go through good times and bad times to get where you're trying to go.

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.