There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

It's no shame in reaching second or third base if you aimed for first base.

You can create tomorrow’s peace out of today’s crisis

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Guns don't walk into a theater by themselves and shoot people. You have to look at who's behind it, who's behind the trigger?

Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.