Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever.

He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.

When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.

You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

If your sin feels "too big," your vision of God is too small.

I like to be able to do things on my own. I'm a big boy. I can drive myself to an appearance or get on a plane. I like a little bit of independence...

The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.