I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.

I know I would crumble if I lost you.

Sometimes destiny switches the cards on you so that while you're busy escaping from the dog, you find yourself facing the wolf

If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.

The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.

Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.

Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over.