Strike said "Huh" again, thinking about betrayal, about how everything and everybody were just so much smoke.

His voice was languidly dense, as if he was a little slow on the uptake, but Strike knew that tone came from the man's feeling of complete control.

The County Jail looked like a tall, forbidding elementary school. Seven stories of dirty brown brick, one hundred years old and now operating at 330 percent of capacity.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

Express your regrets to the right people and you will be encouraged positively

Whence but from heaven, could men unskilled in arts, In several ages born, in several parts, Weave such agreeing truths? Or how, or why, Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie?

Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.

The true warrior isn't immune to fear. She fights in spite of it.

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

I'm a big advocate of being around the things that you want to do eventually, and being around people who are doing them.

Right now Bitcoin feels like the Internet before the browser.