I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him.

No one wanted to die with secrets in their grave.

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy

You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.