London now has its own John Grisham.

Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.

The seeker might aim to hide too, make sure the person you are waiting for is trustworthy if not there will be no one looking for you.

Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.

I would love to re-visit Darla. I miss her. I really do.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms.

When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.

I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.