Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

Love is a greater mystery than death.

Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.

I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive.My motto, as I live and learn, isDig and be dugIn return.

Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see.

Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?

You cannot serve God and Mammon.

...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

Scuttle no small plans. They have no magic to stir single issue individuals into a group of people against everything.

Pit Riley had a lasting effect on us as players and the coaching staff.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

Those who don't build must burn.

We refuse to dismiss the experts, we listen to them ... they all agree that Britain is better off in, you are better off in.