In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.

I was going to become a human sand burger.

Happiness is there when you express kindness, compassion, and unconditional love and fill yourself with bliss and joy.

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.

My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall