Greg Iles Quotes

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

Some things we must pass over in silence.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

We do not just belong to this universe, we are it.

The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.

A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

I don’t really understand the world anymore. But maybe there’s some faint hope that the good people on both sides can come together.

...yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other.