Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met.

My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour.

When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock

In this world, there is life and death; he who misses the life shall never die anymore, because he is already a dead!

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.

Where the hell are the singing cats?

Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece.

I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.