With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

Everything we do is tinged with the knowledge that this may be the last time that we will do this, and that makes what we're doing incredibly sweet.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage.

When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.

For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

God doesn't call people to a job description, He calls people to Himself and His mission in the world.

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

Organization and education, when they interact with each other, they strengthen each other, they are mutually supportive.

My name is Reggie, and I, am happy.