To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

Always you can find what you want, if you search enough times.

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.

My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love.

I really do love to do things that are nice and simple!

I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three worlds they will be entering when they pick up one of my books.

The superior man is never in anyone's way.

Fascist political gatherings tend to encourage or at least expect a little violence around the edges, particularly against counter protesters.

If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.