Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly.

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced.

I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with.

I wondered why I hadn't realized before that art was hard because you had to recreate not merely the scene but the way it soared into your soul and changed you.

What are you most scared of, Caitlin? What I can do to you, or how I make you feel?

Obedience moves the hand of the Lord.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.

Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey

The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.

When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.