To read is human, to review is divine.

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly.

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced.

I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

If you have a religion it must be cosmic.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working on - a great respect for the film and a great respect for the filmmakers.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

Christ always calls us to life and constantly to greater joy, but rarely does He call us to comfort.

And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.