Give Yourself Time To Get Better.

We All Need To Look Into The Dark Side Of Our Nature - That's Where The Energy Is, The Passion. People Are Afraid Of That Because It Holds Pieces Of Us We're Busy Denying.

Sometimes The Hardest Part Of My Job Is The Incessant Reminder Of The Fact We're All Trying So Assiduously To Ignore: We Are Here Temporarily. Life Is Only Ours On Loan.

Pretending To Be 'normal' Is A Lot Harder Than You Think.

My Job As The Writer Is To Fool You. Your Job As The Reader Is To See If You Can Catch Me At It.

My Second Husband And I Were Going Through A Bitter Divorce, And I Didn't Have The Money For A Fancy-pants Attorney. I Didn't Know How To Fight, So I'd Lie Awake At Night And Think Of Ways To Kill Him. But I Knew I'd Get Caught, So I Decided To Put It In A Book And Get Paid For It! I Always Think It's Odd That A Whole Career Came Out Of That Homicidal Impulse.