it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.

God Please help Man find his lost Freedom faster. So that the rest of the creatures on earth who deserve it more can have theirs back.

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

All who love have lied.

”Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion.”

Sweat it out then back home to my man to make dinner. #hausWife

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

The most human thing about us is our technology.

There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying