No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.

When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.

From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.