"If your insanity leads you to carve up women like Jack the Ripper or the Cleveland Torso Murderer, we clap you away in the funny farm (but neither of those two amateur-night surgeons was ever caught, …"

"I go out to my little office, where I've got a manuscript, and the last page I was happy with is on top. I read that, and it's like getting on a taxiway. I'm able to go through and revise it and put m…"

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

"The first duty of a novelist is to entertain. If you don't entertain, then all the deeper stuff is lost."

"There ain't no cure for dumb."