Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.

I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat.

I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.

How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said.

You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.

Dogs love company. They place it first on their short list of needs.

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

Your talk of sniffling riders with invisible noses has unsettled me.

By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

Ranger Smiled. 'You want me to be Superman? Spend the night with me.

Maybe it was me," Grandma said."Sometimes they sneak out.Did I fart?

It's not the pizza, darlin', its my masculine presence." Joe Morelli

We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli

Honey, a man can't keep his gun in a cookie jar. It just isn't done.

I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.

There are some men who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

The present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams.

You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

If I'm not invested emotionally, the artwork doesn't feel emotional.

It's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

The laws governed people's happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.

I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now.

Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

You cannot say that all experience is of equal value for all people.

I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.

This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.

when hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible

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