I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

I know not what it is about you that makes me go crazy but I do know that the radiance in your eyes is more dazzling than that in all the diamonds of this world!And that the inimitable fragrance of your skin is more sublime than that of all the perfumes of this world!

If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs.

Love will find you when you least expect it to. It will come unannounced and find you in an unusual moment on the strangest of days!

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!

A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words.

There's still too much energy leftover at this tomb-desk, on Broadway, when I am semi-asleep at night in our bedroom, struggling to get a good night's rest. There's an overflow of loin energy. It spills out from my pores as if I were a cracked drum of reacting chemicals. I need to work to expend this excess energy in words, stories and books....My mind is a body that's a mind.

Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.

I write the words God put on my mind.