I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.
My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.
I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.
I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.
A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.
Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
