Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.

A society gets the criminals it deserves.

That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

When all else fails, go for the ego.

No woman is a heroine to her dentist.

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

I like to get people fired up, fill them with zeal for McDonald's, and watch the results in their work.

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.