He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

A society gets the criminals it deserves.

That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.

When all else fails, go for the ego.

No woman is a heroine to her dentist.

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.

We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.

But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

I don't know what you can possibly do for less than $50 to have somebody come in your house.

I didn't hit the ball like I was 46. But I putted like I was 66.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers.