"I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding."

You weren’t in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

Strange though it is,Sarov still cares about you. He told me to leave you alone. But I think, this time, I must disobey the general. You are mine! And I intend to make you suffer..." "Just talking to you makes me suffer," Alex said.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.