I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

For when down on the knees The man (or god) stretches the arms In giving, It is no accident the hands Are curled like bowls or cups, For he offers self, yet Begs it back again.

Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies.

So many people are in comedy because of difficult mothers or broken homes.

To love is to transform; to be a poet.

There are no unemployed, either in Russia or in Dartmoor jail, and for the same reason.

I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.