Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.