Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.

Boy, did she love those idiots.

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

I hate the whole concept of comfort!

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

No matter what society is trying to drill in your head about how you should look, how you should act, and what you need to say, I think it's all crap. All of it. Be yourself and do you.

I just want it to be timeless and timely at the same time.

I would not presume to say that I know anything about "The Truth," whatever that is.

I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.