I whispered across the bars to Jackaby as I rose, "Shall I tell them the truth?""Have you killed anyone?" he asked, quietly."No, of course not!""Then I can't imagine why you shouldn't.

Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.

We are not the policy department, except for those of us who are, " Jackaby revised.

To the attention of the New Fiddleham Police Department: You've got my middle-C, and I would like it back....Please return Jackaby's tuning fork. He's getting even more obnoxious than usual.

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.

Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

While I have the utmost respect for people who practice the Christian faith, the fact is, as everyone knows, I am as Jewish as a matzo ball or kosher salami.

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

Treasure every single moment you spend with someone you care about.

I don't like to look a man in the eye.

Any time you have questions when you're watching something, it's good - it makes you want to watch more.

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.

It's a crazy feeling when people know who you are and respect your game. It's much appreciated.