I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.

It is not aloofness, superiority. It’s a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn’t want to gather close her comrades?

Things can get pretty rough out there, " he says. "Can't they? For you girls? You're all a bunch of warriors, aren't you? Lionhearted.

It is simple as this: she has a complicated life and her clothes can't help but show it. It is all part of her unique disheveled glamour.

...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change.That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.

She wasn't just a B-girl, she was carrying the whole ugly world in her eyes.

Love is a kind of killing, Addy, " she says. "Don't you know that?

You couldn’t make someone love you with a rune, and you couldn’t assuage grief with it either. So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart.

History is the roadmap to a better tomorrow. Destroying it is getting rid of any chance of what not to do for future generations.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

Now, they're saying I groped a male staffer. Yes, I did. Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he couldn't breathe and four guys jumped on top of me. It was my 50th birthday.

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

I think that the special thing about radio is the off switch. If something's not pleasing you, turn it off.

You take yourself out of the moment and knock yourself off balance when you judge and think about what you are doing, rather than experiencing and enjoying what you are doing.