That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.

A society gets the criminals it deserves.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.

When all else fails, go for the ego.

No woman is a heroine to her dentist.

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.

If you actually want something and are really passionate about it, you will get it no matter what.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."

It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

Separation of Church and State is the perineum of America and the episiotomy didn't hold.

I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

There are two types of people in this world - those who would appear on reality television and the rest of us.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I heard a bird sing In the dark of December A magical thing And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September,' I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?