Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

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.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

The best way to get started on the path of sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning it in front of others.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

The frustrating thing about Friday Night Lights is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.

What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?

'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

I would feel much the way I feel when anybody is elected. You deal with what you end up getting.

The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.