I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

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.

Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.

True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will not the other way around.

So, what are you?" "What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.

The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.

A theory that explains everything, explains nothing

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

When you do your best, there is no impossibility.

Exploiting a sustainable competitive advantage is great... If you can find it.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.