Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

The Army was my bread and butter.

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

I have told myself you are not allowed to hurt me anymore. That's what hurts the most.

Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.

Our sins live with us for eternity, and that is perhaps the most frightening thing of all. - Sims

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

Quit jumping over our feelings!

Habits are the shorthand of behavior.

All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.