I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal

We need to find the light within ourselves, so we can see our true worth.

Exit is a letter away from Exist.A part, just a space away from Apart.

I couldn't care less about the leader board. A lot of guys have led the league in something in April and couldn't be found at the end of the season.

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.

Nobody wins until we all do.

I'm The Greatest, but only in relation to fighting.

The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.