I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.

If you are so worried of things that can be fixed that you can't fix them. Just remember we came to this world without refactions.

Ideology follows the money.""Governments don't protect people, people protect governments.""To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.

The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.

There is no education but self-education.

Jeb Bush has being slammed by his own party for a very messy response to questions about his brother's war in Iraq. He should have been ready for this one.

I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.

If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.

Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places.