Personally I didn’t believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.
I hate to shop. I consider it one of life’s necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.
Personally, I think neutral is just another way of saving your own ass at the expense of someone else’s.
One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.
Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.
I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I’m perched on that edge where I’m getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn’t going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.
Different isn’t evil, it’s just different.
Can you truly love anyone if you do not first love yourself? If you hate yourself, can you love anyone else? If you do not accept all of who you are, can you accept anyone else? Hard questions. It remains to be seen whether I get any answers, hard, or otherwise.
Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.
Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.
Guarantees are for major appliances, not for murder.
The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.
There’s no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else’s morality.
Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you’re right, and everyone else is evil.
What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.
Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.
If you think love makes you happy, you’ve either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.