Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Most of my beholders are blind.

There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we ignore it.

I want to douse myself in silver words and whisper away all rue.

After a breath and before another, there's plenty of time to rest.

LOOK AT MY BLOOD FLOWERS, BECAUSE I WRITE WITH A SERENE SHARP BLADE THAT SOOTHES. AS MUCH AS CUTS INTO THE DEEPEST PARTS OF MY SOUL.

Even dead fallen leaves go a long way with the wind before getting crushed.

All these mirrorscarnival distortionsof selves we never were.

If by fawning, you mean he’s a deer, I have a gun, and it’s hunting season, then I guess you’re right.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.

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.

There is always something new out of Africa.

Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep

The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.

A battle avoided cannot be lost.