Love comes to those who believe it, and that's the way it is.
You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.
The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it.
My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.
If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
With a horror movie most of the actual jumps and scares are made in the edit. It's often not very scary on set and then you watch the film and suddenly it's very scary because the way the jump scares fit together building up the suspense in the audience because it's making them jump when they're least expecting it.
Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.