That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

I enjoy travelling the world, but nowhere beats Walsall.

You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do the same for others.

There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.

I’m glad you think so. I’ve always considered my sense of humor to be largely underappreciated, so it’s nice to finally meet a fan.

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

If you're not getting any motivation from anyone around you in life and you feel alone, rely on yourself and your own ability.