The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

Playing well with others isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Apathy is grossly undervalued and never there for me when I need it.

No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.

Anyone who's had a shower and hasn't ingested illegal narcotics within a couple of days stands out on a bench in the courthouse.

Lust is the best of all the deadly sins.

To lead means to direct and to exact and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin the generality and God (the Word).

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

Tantra is quicker; but for some people it can be spiritually disastrous.

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.

a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!