To a predator, fear indicates weakness.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.