I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.

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.

Be conscious of your pleasantness.

Today is a beautiful day. Thank you!

He was incapable of anticipating to-morrow's griefs.

I have seen the greatest artists and the most eccentric divas in music. The greater and more visionary they were, the more self-reflexive and childlike they behaved.

Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.

Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry's come back.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.