Anyone who's had a shower and hasn't ingested illegal narcotics within a couple of days stands out on a bench in the courthouse.

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

Playing well with others isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Apathy is grossly undervalued and never there for me when I need it.

No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.

Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy

Woah, ' I said, blocking the doorway. 'You can't come in here. This is the girls' r

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.

I'm a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too.

Music gave me something to do in my life.

Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?"

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.