I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

Head up, heart open. To better days!

To live is to suffer

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

How did we get to the point where we're paying for bottled water? I imagine it was some weird marketing meeting over in France.

No, ' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been.

Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.

Gravity hurts.

As innocent as a new-laid egg.

Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope.

I try to preface everything with "this isn't new." Because most social movements have happened before and I get that. Nothing I'm doing is new.