I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

Life has been fair, destiny may have staged it well but the timings were terrible.

All it takes is rumor...The danger itself is irrelevant. It's the perception of danger we're selling.

We're part of God's much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God's Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It's your move.

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

I am a proud Christian who has been greatly tutored by Hindus and Buddhists and Sufis and others, and I stand and I speak from that place.