One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

I am not a morning person.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

The best lies are always at least partially true.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."

I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.

When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.