There's No Substitute For Loyalty.

Don't Ever Quit. Never Quit. Never Show Anybody You're Hurt. Grin And Walk Through The Cannon Smoke. It Will Drive Them Up The Wall. You Always Stay True To Your Own Principles. You Always Believe In Your Gift. God Doesn't Make Mistakes When He Presents Someone With A Gift Like That. It's There For A Reason. Tell The Naysayers, Those Who Reject You, To Drop Dead! Who Cares?

Humility Is Not A Virtue In A Writer, It Is An Absolute Necessity.

I Think All Good Narration Contains An Element Of Mystery And Suspense. If It Didn't, If The Storyline Were Predictable, We Would Have No Interest In Reading It.

I Believe The Causes That Create Them [serial Killers] Are Theological In Nature, Rather Than Societal. I Believe They Make A Conscious Choice To Erase God's Thumbprint From Their Souls.

I Think The "crime Novel" Has Replaced The Sociological Novel Of The 1930s. I Think The Progenitor Of That Tradition Is James M. Cain, Who In My View Is The Most Neglected Writer In American Literature.