When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

Love is a greater mystery than death.

Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

I was born and bred to be a great flirt.

I would not be surprised. The voter ID, they're fighting as hard as you can fight so that that they don't have to show voter ID.

I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my uncles are all City season ticket holders. So I'm gonna say 5-0 to United!

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences.

That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.

I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.