Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.
I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.
It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or an idea.
Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace where they come from. I can't say that I am sitting here one night at nine o'clock and that a character occurs to me. The magic for me happens at the typewriter.
If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.
No matter what you face, don't forget if you're positive, positivity will find you and embrace you.
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.
Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.