Tory a father isn’t supposed to fear his fourteen-year-old daughter. That being sad, you terrify me.

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Trust your heart, and the answer will always become clear.

For fools admire but men of sense approve.

One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.

Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

We talk about saving time and killing time when actually we can't do either. We have no choice but to spend it at a constant and flowing rate.