"Black Stache had no love for the..." - Quote by Dave Barry

“The doctor looked at my cardiogram and made that "hmmmm" noise that doctors are taught in medical school so they won't come right out and say "UH-oh!"”

“Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid”

“I don't want to dis anybody, but someone like Robert Parker. I first read a Spenser book maybe 20 years ago and then read every one that came out. I did that with Tony Hillerman too.”

“Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.”

“There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.”

“Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.”

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.”

“Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now letme die, for I have lived long enough.”

“The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.”