A home without a dog is merely a shelter.

I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes the viewer feel good.

You can trust a dog with your life...but not your lunch

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Every great artist gives birth to a new universe, in which the familiar things look the way they have never before looked to anyone.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.

Do I look dead to you?!

I've given no thought to moving to America at all.

So will you meet me?” “Yeah. Sure. Where.” “Montrag’s safe house in Connecticut. If you were the one who killed him, you know the address.

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

Most attorneys practice law because it gives them a grand and glorious feeling. You give them a grand - and they feel glorious.