
The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

Giving them room is often the better part of valor, especially when you're trying not to make things worse.

He made a sympathetic shrug, then spread his hands. Flexibility, my friend. Flexibility is the key to all happiness. Remember that.

Muthuhfuckin' muthuhfucker! I oughta come over there kick your ass myself, worryin'me like this? I got your back homes! I got your back!

Daniel said, all serious, "I asked you, you seen a zombie? They got'm here in this place, I know for a fact." Tolley

My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

Los Angeles is the evolutionary edge.

L.A.'s magic has let me see every level of the dream.

People want you to be ordinary.

Pike hung up. He knew he couldn't convince Darko with more talk. Darko would have to convince himself, and now he would either show or he wouldn't.

My first job was cleaning dog kennels. It was especially, ah, aromatic during those hot, humid Louisiana summers, but it prepared me for Hollywood.

There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

As a man gets older, his regrets changes. Especially when he's gotten into the Scotch.

She fingered the card and looked at the younger man. "James Edward, did you offer the man a cool drink?" James Edward said, "You want a Scrapple?

He nodded, approving. When he nodded, the two lesser attorneys nodded, too. No one had bothered to introduce them, but they didn't seem to mind.

When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.

Stone checked his watch. Tempus fugit. "Gotta

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.