I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

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?

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.

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.

Impossible to let go ... No longer knowing how to hold on.

A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.

There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since Roe vs. Wade.

Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.

When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

Angels come in all sizes and shapes and colors, visible and invisible to the physical eye. But always you are changed from having seen one.