The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

Her black is beautiful, his society is ugly.

No more can this Angel teach her, Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake ...

The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

You don't understand, photography is not about getting the right picture, it's about documenting your everyday life.

(The mind's) dynamics transcend the time and space of brain physiology.

No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?

Give death a better name or die trying.

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.