“Passion should burn hot, or what good is it to anyone?”

“To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.”

“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.”

“Learn to live, love and laugh....And to enjoy a good story when there is one to be heard.”

“If you believe that goodness lives on forever, then you might also believe that death is but temporary.”

“If you are not in charge of your life, who is?”

“Just as hate can follow you through your life, love can lead you.”