“I heart my job. I get to make things up for a living.”

“The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense.”

“People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.”

“My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.”

“Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come of it.”

“Without love, life was nothing but endless tasks and battles.”

“If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.”

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”

“Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.”

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”

“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”

“I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different ...”

“If a man brags about his sex life he's a stud, but if a woman brags about her sex life she's a slut.”

“God is my provider I brag different.”